Dengue Fever add eccentricity to psych pop

By MATT PARISH | June 1, 2011

"The truth is that we started out with that as a springboard," says Smith. "It's a definitive sound, but really since the second record, in my mind we've been mixing in other stuff and have not been confined by it. In that genre, there are so many things that are so quirky and strange that you can always look into that stuff and get an idea."

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