Punk rock pioneers the New York Dolls are set to release their fifth full-length record Dancing Backward In High Heels March 15 on 429 Records. Featuring original members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, the album was recorded in Newcastle, England and produced by Louis XIV’s Jason Hill. Please see below for a track listing. Dancing Backward in High Heels is the follow-up to 2009’s ‘Cause I Sez So, which The New Yorker praises for “[showing] the band at its full power” while Billboard notes that “the unlikely resurrection of the New York Dolls is solidified by [‘Cause I Sez So].”
Originally formed in 1971, the New York Dolls are best known for influencing a generation of artists in New York and London who went on to form the first punk rock and heavy metal bands. Largely influenced themselves by the rock & roll of the
Rolling Stones and the
Stooges as well as the glam rock made by
David Bowie and
T. Rex, the legendary original Dolls lineup only recorded two albums,
New York Dolls and
Too Much Too Soon, before breaking up in 1976. After reuniting in 2004 (at the behest of Morrissey, the head of the band’s U.K. fan club in the `70s), the band went on to record a pair of records—2006’s
One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This and 2009’s
‘Cause I Sez So.
The tracklisting is as follows:
01. Fool For You Baby
02. Streetcake
03. I’m So Fabulous
04. Talk To Me Baby
05. Kids Like You
06. Round and Round She Goes
07. You Don’t Have to Cry
08. I Sold My Heart to The Junkman
09. Baby Tell Me What I’m On
10. Funky But Chic
11. End Of The Summer
