The Dodos – Visiter Review
I heard about The Dodos from a friend and a 8.5 Pitchfork review put them on the radar. Anyway The Dodos are from San Francisco California…playing what is referred to as psychedelic folk. I hate the term psychedelic as a genre because it could be anything, another form of pop or progressive rock.
Genre isn’t important but they do take elements of folk and add their own spin with complex arrangements while keeping the music generally relaxed. Their songs range from 1-2 minute pieces to 6 minute epic songs. There’s 4 tracks that are greater than 6 minutes. I think they have one mistake on this album and it comes with the track “The Season” being a 6 minute song hurts it as well. I think that the track doesn’t bring quite enough compared to the extra instrumentation and the use of vocals like the on the rest of the album, The Season comes off bland and really just takes way too long to build upon. The end is great but waiting 5 minutes into a 6 minute song…usually makes me want to press “skip”.
The rest of the album is top notch though. I definitely would say “Jodi” is my favorite for the amazing intro and with a frantic quality to. The next would be “God?” which comes off as a great ending to an album. I absolutely love the vocals…perfect vocals the relaxing type but with enough range to keep from being bored during the soft moments. There are a vast amount of instruments and a lot of random bits.
Musically it’s unique and if probably challenging if I attempted to try to play one of their songs but the way it’s done they’ve made challenging to make music easy to listen to and I love that shit.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
Excellent album, with some downright amazing arrangements.
Buy this album at: CD Universe/Insound/Amazon
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