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{{Short description|Album by Wussy}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = Funeral Dress
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Wussy]]
| cover      =Funeral Dress (album).jpg
| alt        =
| released   = December 2005
| recorded   = 2005
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Indie rock]], [[country rock]], [[alternative rock]]
| length     = 35:47
| label      = Shake It Records
| producer   = Wussy
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Left for Dead (Wussy album)|Left for Dead]]
| next_year  = 2007
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
|rev2score = (A)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=5576&name=Wussy|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Wussy|website=www.robertchristgau.com|accessdate=11 June 2017}}</ref>
|rev1=[[AllMusic]]
|rev1score={{rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/funeral-dress-mw0001146122 | title=Funeral Dress Review | work=Allmusic | accessdate=28 November 2014 | author=Luerssen, John D.}}</ref>
|rev3=''[[No Depression (magazine)|No Depression]]''
|rev3score=(favorable)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://nodepression.com/album-review/wussy-funeral-dress | title=Wussy – Funeral Dress | work=No Depression | date=31 October 2005 | accessdate=11 June 2017 | author=Alden}}</ref>
}}
'''''Funeral Dress''''', the debut album by [[Wussy]], was released on December 6, 2005.<ref name=allmusic/> The label, Shake It Records, released the album on CD format only.
The album received mostly positive reviews. It was chosen as the 4th greatest album of the decade by prominent critic [[Robert Christgau]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/list/rs00.php |title=Rolling Stone Ballot: The 00's Best Songs & Albums |publisher=Robert Christgau |date= |accessdate=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102174101/http://robertchristgau.com/xg/list/rs00.php |archive-date=2010-01-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2015, ''SPIN'' ranked ''Funeral Dress'' #252 on their list of the 300 best albums of the last 30 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spin.com/2015/05/the-300-best-albums-of-the-past-30-years-1985-2014/|title=The 300 Best Albums Of The Past 30 Years (1985-2014) {{!}} SPIN|date=2015-05-11|access-date=2016-09-25}}</ref>
==Track listing==
#"Airborne" (Lisa Walker, Chuck Cleaver) – 3:17
#"Funeral Dress" (Walker, Cleaver, Mark Messerly) – 3:59
#"Soak It Up" (Walker) – 2:55
#"Shunt" (Cleaver) – 3:18
#"Conversation Lags" (Walker, Cleaver, Messerly) – 3:08
#"Crooked" (Walker) – 3:13
#"Humanbrained Horse" (Cleaver) – 3:46
#"Motorcycle" (Walker) – 3:56
#"Yellow Cotton Dress" (Cleaver) – 2:17
#"Bought It Again" (Walker, Cleaver)  – 3:44
#"Don't Leave Just Now" (Walker, Cleaver) – 3:46
==Acoustic album==
Wussy released an acoustic version<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19259-wussy-attica/|title=Wussy: Attica! Album Review|last=Oliphint|first=Joel|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |quote=2011’s Funeral Dress II, an acoustic reworking of 2005 debut Funeral Dress}}</ref> of the album, titled ''Funeral Dress II'', for [[Record Store Day]] on April 16, 2011, at Shake It Records in [[Northside, Cincinnati]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/review/the-many-reasons-to-love-wussy/|title=The Many Reasons to Love Wussy|date=16 March 2012|publisher=}}</ref>
==Personnel==
'''[[Wussy]]'''
* Lisa Walker - vocals, guitar, [[organ (music)|organ]]
* [[Chuck Cleaver]] - vocals, guitar
* Mark Messerly - vocals, bass, keyboards, guitar, [[mandolin]], [[harmonica]], [[accordion]], [[Bell|bells]]
* Dawn Burman - drums, percussion
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Wussy}}
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==External links==
* {{Discogs release|type=album|3304618}}
[[Category:2006 debut albums]]
[[Category:Wussy albums]]
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