| Visiter | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dodos
Label: French Kiss
Category: Music
List Price: £14.49
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 9814
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.1
MPN: 33
UPC: 675640912527
EAN: 0675640912527
ASIN: B0013LKZJQ
Release Date: March 24, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Walking | | • | Red and Purple | | • | Eyelids | | • | Fools | | • | Joe's Waltz | | • | Winter | | • | It's That Time Again | | • | Paint the Rust | | • | Park Song | | • | Jodi | | • | Ashley | | • | Season | | • | Undeclared | | • | God? |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Alive and kicking May 10, 2008
The Dodos are an exciting new band that blend freak folk with latin influences and blues. Their debut `Visiter` sees the duo create often cacophanous and frenetic songs mostly from acoustic (sometimes slide) guitars, banjo, pounding percussion and occasional horns. It is a raw template that recalls, by turns, The White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, Animal Collective (circa `Sung Tongs`) and, more recently, The Ruby Suns. While texturally minimalistic, the songs are structurally expansive, shifting in and out of delicate balladry to rollicking jams.
The sing-song, nursery-rhyme melodies contrast with The Dodos' wild percussive energy which is at the distinctive core of almost all their tracks. 'Visiter` is rendered with an air of live spontaneity, a rawness and volatility emphasised by crazed backing vocals yelped from the back of the mix. The style stretches a little thin over the course of 14 tracks; momentum is notably lost on more throwaway efforts and inconsequential one minute doodles. But the rawness belies a more formalistic approach to songcraft that recalls the song-within-a-song dynamics of Grizzly Bear. A substantial debut then from an exciting new band with much to admire and enjoy; if you like this check out aforementioned artists, especially Grizzly Bear's `Yellow House` and The Ruby Suns' `Sea Lion`.
 Fantastic! April 11, 2008
Well, it's not freak-folk, it's joy-folk du jour, obviously. Anthemic vocal refrains, a twist of psychedelia, fingerpicking folk, massive locomotive percussion and breakneck intelligent pop may remind of the less abstract Animal Collective or Andy Partridge's XTC (10 years after) or Iron & Wine. Dodos plays great, infectious lo-fi/lo-key new-primitivist stuff, which is even better on their "Beware of the Maniacs" release.
One of the best... March 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Blues guitar and wonderfully catchy vocals from one guy, and drums that don't sit at the back and merely carry the music, but take the forefront as vital as any lead instrument from the other guy. Between the two of them, they create exciting, fun, heavy, poppy, experimental, bluesy music that has to be loved. One of the very very best of 2008.
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