“All of The Dead Girls” by DREAMCAR

"All of The Dead Girls" comes off Dreamcar's self-titled 2017 debut, the supergroup's run at 1980s-style synth-pop and power pop with a morbid streak down the middle. Davey Havok, Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal and Adrian Young wrote it together, and Havok credits his friend, the actor Josh Richman, with nudging him toward a song about dead girls.

Tim Pagnotta produced and Mark "Spike" Stent mixed. Dumont plays guitar, Kanal bass and Young drums, and the three of them stack backing vocals behind Havok's lead; the keyboards come from Dumont, Kanal and former No Doubt member Gabrial McNair, with Scheila Gonzalez on saxophone. Issued as a promo in April, it went out as the record's second single that July on Columbia, and the band played it on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Critics were split, hearing New Order, Duran Duran, Bauhaus and the Cure in it.

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