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Dodos, The - Certainty Waves [Very Limited 180g Salmon Color Vinyl Record]

Dodos, The - Certainty Waves [Very Limited 180g Salmon Color Vinyl Record]

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Dodos, The  - Certainty Waves [Very Limited 180g Salmon Color Vinyl Record]

[Limited to only 500 copies worldwide in this color!]

To make Certainty Waves, their seventh album as The Dodos, guitarist Meric Long and percussionist Logan Kroeber had to forget everything they knew about what it meant to be The Dodos. Like the duo's breakout sophomore album Visiter, Certainty Waves finds The Dodos embracing the unlimited possibilities of a time when there were no preconceptions of what the band should sound like. Questions like whether the group needed to incorporate more than just "acoustic guitar and drums," and just what exactly the ratio should be of acoustic vs. electric guitar suddenly took a backseat to the realization that so much emphasis was mistakenly being put on form rather than spirit.

Perhaps not surprisingly, this epiphany occurred while the band was re-learning Visiter for a show in which they were to perform the record in its entirety. Recalls Long: "At the time that show happened, I was a little bit lost in terms of which direction the record should go. We had a handful of recordings, nuggets, and song potentials, but they weren't songs yet, and months had passed without any real progress. I was kind of debating whether to drop the kitchen sink, simplify things, or just leave them be." But a funny thing happened when he sat down to listen to Visiter for the first time in 8 years. "It completely surprised me how much electric guitar is on that record," reveals Long. "The narrative had always been we were just acoustic guitar and drums." 

This ostensibly simple observation was pivotal in unlocking a new approach to the material Long and Kroeber would later put to tape in the studio. "Rather than thinking about the end result or considering the reaction of the listener, I tried to give in to gut reactions, first impulses, however silly or untrue to form they may be," says Long. "If it was exciting in any way, we pursued it without hesitancy or question." What began to emerge from the band's rehearsals was a quasi post-punk sound that Long immediately gravitated toward. It felt new and different, yet somehow still fundamentally "Dodos." And so, Certainty Waves was born. 

Speaking of the aforementioned spirit, album opener "Forum" has it in spades: a fanfare-esque synth intro, thumping drums, trumpet bursts and fist-pumping "Hey!'s" - not to mention a guitar line that wouldn't be out of place snaking its way through a Strokes album. Later, "SW3" employs different tactics to achieve its own frantic vitality, intertwining acoustic guitar and clicking drumsticks in a beautifully syncopated rhythm. "
Certainty Waves is our midlife crisis record," acknowledges Long. "Who we thought we were, how mistaken we were, how an interference in the trajectory can flip your understanding of what came before."

  1. Forum
  2. IF
  3. Coughing
  4. Center of
  5. SW3
  6. Excess
  7. Ono Fashion
  8. Sort of
  9. Dial Tone

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Care Instructions

Keep away from the sun.

Never place it next to a Justin Bieber record.

Treat it like your grandma, you know if she was a record. Know what I mean? Tender care, don't talk back, and never interupt during Murder She Wrote. Wait - what the hell was I writing about-

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