It’s been a thrilling year for the Dip.
In December, Rolling Stone gave the Seattle-brewed soul septet a song of the week shout-out and Relix hosted a video premiere, both for the doo-wop shuffling, role-reversal single “She Gave Me the Keys.” Both rags mentioned the same Daptone Records vibe, no small compliment and also apropos: The band’s to-the-point name is inspired by the Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings track “The Dap Dip” (and its hip-driven dance move). They rode the buzz into February with the release of a sophomore LP, The Dip Delivers, and then packed Neumos with two back-to-back, sold-out album-release shows.
“It was a really humbling experience to be received so well in Seattle, where we’ve been playing for, you know, six or seven years as a band,” said trumpeter Brennan Carter. “It added this element of pressure, like all of these people, 1,300 people over two nights, came to see us. So we needed to make sure we were stepping it up and not letting them down.”
