Dummy "Free Energy" LP/CD/CS (2024)

Details: Dummy "Free Energy" Inverse Hyperspace Splatter LP, CD digipak, and cassette variants (Trouble In Mind, 2024). New stock, sealed.

Description: "Dummy is a rock band from Los Angeles comprised of Alex Ewell, Emma Maatman, Nathan O’Dell, and Joe Trainor. Their debut full-length “Mandatory Enjoyment” (Trouble in Mind) arrived in late 2021, becoming one of the year’s sleeper hits and garnering praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum, and more. of lockdown, the band spent two years touring in support of the record, and it is this transformational experience that pulses through “Free Energy”, the exhilarating follow-up to “Mandatory Enjoyment”.

A creatively restless band, Dummy (Ewell: drums, synths, bass; Maatman: vocals, synths, organ; O'Dell: vocals, guitar, organ; Trainor: guitar, bass, synths)wanted to get harder, dancier, more psychedelic for their next record. This meant applying explorative potentials of electronic textures to the elemental qualities of rock i.e. more vocal loops, sampling, more crazy rhythms, and playful synths - but make those samples of Trainor’s guitar, let Maatman sing bolder, experiment with using cold mechanical elements in warm and sparkly ways, and lean harder into traditional-yet-still-awesome forms of rock guitar experimentation like feedback The result is a record that celebrates music’s ability to move the body, whether that be through a teeth-rattling wall of MBV-esque noise, a sticky pop chorus, or a joyous drum machine—or, if you’re Dummy, maybe all of them in the same song. ..."

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING:

01. Intro-UB
02. Soonish
03. Unshaped Road
04. Opaline Bubbletear
05. Blue Dada
06. Nullspace
07. Minus World
08. Dip In The Lake
09. Sudden Flutes
10. Psychic Battery
11. Nine Clean Nails
12. Godspin