Everyone is Dirty put a haunting spin on grunge rock with Dying is Fun

Everyone is Dirty continues their streak of eclectic grunge rock bordering on performance art with their latest album, titled Dying is Fun. It has a fairly continuous sound — each song seems to blend well with the previous track into a cathartic stream of haunting and, at times, unsettling guitar and drum-heavy melodies.

A fairly new band in the Bay Area, Everyone is Dirty formed last year on Oakland-based label Tricycle Records. Their standard drum/guitar/bass combination is augmented by lead singer Sivan Gur-Arieh’s vocals and electric violin solos, which form a good contrast with the instruments, which are chaotic and at times atonal. Her voice is a soft, eerie and unaffected eye of the storm in the midst of  the passionate rage of the rest of the band.

Opening track “Dirtbag Side-Effect” pulls you right in with growling, dissonant guitars and vocals. “Meltyface” begins with a light acoustic intro but eventually devloves into the band’s classic grunge sound. “Mama, No!!!” takes a slower beat with excellent backing vocals and a far more satisfying chord progression than the other, more challenging tracks on this album.

As Gur-Arieh puts it, Dying is Fun is a “bedroom tape on bath salts.”

Everyone is Dirty is throwing a release party this Friday, September 5 at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco. Tickets here.