Whoop Dee Doo

iTunes Editors’ Notes

After spending a few months touring with The Pixies, Kim Shattuck was dismissed for having too much stage presence. Back with her own band, The Muffs, Shattuck is in the driver’s seat where she belonged all along. The bump-up in public profile hasn’t changed her a bit, and Whoop Dee Doo—the first new Muffs studio album in 10 years—features exactly the hard guitar-sweet pop that’s always been her forte. Bassist Ronnie Barnett and drummer Roy McDonald are a solid, unassuming rhythm section that provide home base for Shattuck’s emotionally gripping songs. Her screams in “Take a Take a Me” are as passionate as her lead vocals are raw and real, offering up an unmitigated joy that’s been at the core of great rock ’n’ roll since the days of Little Richard. Songs such as “Weird Boy Next Door,” “Like You Don’t See Me,” “Cheezy,” and “I Get It” feature classic pop-rock moves with Shattuck providing a female perspective that’s honest, smart, and playful. The melodies are strong, and the guitar riffs are ready to make air guitarists out of the average listener.