Dwarves – Sugarfix (1993)

December 13, 2024

Personally, I find that Sugarfix sits between the two “eras” of classic Dwarves. Oddly, it has worse production than Little Girls but also has more melodic / fully fleshed out songs like what would come after this point. So it’s a weird inbetween, yet also somewhat underwhelming. I can’t say that it’s Dwarves by numbers because that would go against the “transitional period” sound I just mentioned above, but nothing here really jumps out at me. It feels like the whole album trails leagues behind “Anybody Out There”, a single which saw some success and soon after Sugarfix, it go a seperate EP release of its own, so it seemed like someone in the band or management or label (before they dropped them) was thinking the same.

Oh, and the bass sounds great.