Wandering Oak: Dummy (US)

Fri Nov 29 2024 at 07:30 pm UTC+00:00

The Lubber Fiend | Newcastle Upon Tyne

Wandering Oak
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Wandering Oak: Dummy (US)
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Wandering Oak brings you:
Dummy
plus Three Quarter Skies • Waves Of Dread
at the Lubber Fiend
• Dummy • (USA. Trouble In Mind Records)
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. Coming out 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.
Pop music has always been a big part of Dummy’s sound and it manifests in different ways all over Free Energy: the bubbly synth sequence made with a Korg EM1 popping all over “Nullspace,” the revved-up drone-pop inspired by second and third wave Dunedin Sound bands like Look Blue Go Purple and Dadamah, and the motorik beat powering “Nine Clean Nails,” perhaps the most confidently pop song Dummy has ever recorded and one that exemplifies Free Energy’s balancing of live performance intensity with electronic augmentations, the dancier rhythmic elements created out of a drum loop recorded by Ewell while the bridge recalls the Feelies with call-and-response guitars from O’Dell and expressive vocals from Maatman.
FFO Stereolab / En Attendant Ana / Pavement
https://notdummy.bandcamp.com/
• Three Quarter Skies •
The new psychedelic / dreamgaze venture of Slowdive‘s Simon Scott, Three Quarter Skies join as special guests here in support of their debut album Fade In. The eight-track album, recorded by Simon and mixed with the help of elusive Flying Saucer Attack mainman Dave Pearce. includes the singles ‘Crows’ and ‘Leave A Light On’, a Nick Drake cover and brand new versions of ‘Holy Water’ and ‘Pieces Of Roslin’, which was originally released on last year’s introductory EP, Universal Flames.
FFO Flying Saucer Attack / Suicide / The Fall / Neu! / John Cage / Spacemen 3
https://threequarterskies.bandcamp.com/music
• Waves Of Dread •
Intimate musings embedded in expansive sonic textures, from Tyneside's foremost and most insistent dream pop force.
FFO RIDE / Guided By Voices / Penelope Isles
https://wavesofdread.bandcamp.com/
Advance tickets available via See Tickets:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/dummy/the-lubber-fiend/3080844
and via DICE:
https://link.dice.fm/Efc8b0e64b59

The Lubber Fiend
81 Blandford Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3PZ
For ages 18+ only, from 7:30pm
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