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With musicians seeking inspiration from ever wider circles, the only way to define music like San Francisco’s the Dodos is stroke-pop: a hybrid of indie/ folk/ world/ psych/ country/ avant music. Try filing that in your average record shop! Meric Long has studied West African drumming and been turned on by country fingerpicking, while drummer Logan Kroeber comes at his craft from a progressive metal angle, and all this and more is evident in the variform 14 songs of their second album. The effect is seen from the outset: ‘Walking’ is alt.folk twangy until it segues into the mighty Afrobeat rhythms and flashes of melody of ‘Red and Purple’, setting the mood for the rest of the record. This switches from melodic song to percussive rhythm track, from the delicate picking of ‘Park Song’ to the madly strummed guitars and wild gypsy screaming of ‘The Season’. It’s difficult to categorise when some songs sound as if you could hang them next to the output of Beirut while others take the pop-experimentalist path of Animal Collective and Panda Bear and all of them have that psychotic percussive Africa-inspired heartbeat. Fans of those previously mentioned bands won’t be disappointed and newcomers will be transfixed by the freeform dynamism and eclectic collage of sounds.
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