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The focus on this instrument was due in large part to the time Long spent with Reimer. Also the guitarist for Women, Reimer joined Long and percussionist Logan Kroeber to become the third member of The Dodos throughout 2011 before unexpectedly passing away early the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chris was a huge influence on the way I think about guitar, songwriting, and music in general,\" reveals Long. \"Seeing how he could transform and shape sound with an electric guitar inspired me to explore more tones and use those tones to begin writing a song.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so, when he began to formulate the tracks that would ultimately comprise \u003cem\u003eCarrier\u003c\/em\u003e, Long employed two principles he inherited from Reimer: patience to let a song develop and a judgment-free enthusiasm for sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo this end, Long and Kroeber decided to record in their hometown of San Francisco for the first time, allowing for less time constraints and a more pressure-free experience than past out-of-state sessions had afforded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone studio was initially chosen for its analog-friendly set-up, the duo were happy to find themselves working within a supportive community of like-minded musicians that included engineers Jay and Ian Pellicci, both of whom assisted in the production of \u003cem\u003eCarrier\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the Magik Magik Orchestra, which appears on several tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a result, the album The Dodos crafted is refreshingly sincere: no computers, no gimmicks -- just eleven songs that are beautiful and solid and true and honest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Substance\" effortlessly embodies all of these traits, from the crisp drumming that announces its arrival to the bright guitar lines that weave in and out before eventually joining forces with a triumphant burst of trumpets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Confidence\" begins like a calm before the storm, its strong vocals over gentle guitar and drums soon erupting into a positively epic display of guitar riffs and hypnotizing percussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe record's second side is anchored by \"The Current,\" on which an angular guitar tone loops over a chugging guitar rhythm to satisfying effect as Long declares in a moment of catharsis, \"If this love comes unto me \/ I'm with it \/ I'm with it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch too soon, \u003cem\u003eCarrier\u003c\/em\u003e ends with \"The Ocean\" -- though Long and Kroeber view the track less as a conclusion and more of a \"to be continued\" into this album's follow-up, which they have already begun working on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a band briefly in flux, it's clear now that The Dodos’ outlook on the future has never looked more certain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polyvinyl Records","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl (180-Gram Smoke)","offer_id":50775317479731,"sku":"PRC-265LP","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50818984476979,"sku":"PRC-265CD","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital","offer_id":50818984542515,"sku":"PRC-265DIGITAL","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0881\/7655\/8387\/files\/42fe880812925e520249e808937738d2.jpg?v=1735838695"},{"product_id":"the-dodos-individ","title":"The Dodos - Individ","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the \u003cstrong\u003eDodos\u003c\/strong\u003e \"the best time to make a record is right after you've finished one\" says vocalist and guitarist Meric Long.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving just wrapped up the sessions for their previous record \u003cem\u003eCarrier\u003c\/em\u003e, and fired up on the level of comfort achieved with brothers Jay and Ian Pellicci at Tiny Telephone studio, the duo immediately began laying to tape the batch of songs that would result in their latest and sixth record, entitled \u003cem\u003eIndivid\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There were things I didn't want to forget, sounds that we had just scratched the surface of making that record that I wanted to capitalize on. 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First formed with the intention of creating a record that felt and sounded how the inside of a guitar might, the band have spent the intervening years sprinting towards that platonic ideal. The propulsion of that chase has always been palpable, even in the duo’s strangest, quietest moments — a gasping thrill conjured as if metallurgically from the interplay between virtuosically fingerpicked guitar and bracingly intricate drumming. Now, after so long, finally: \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Peak\u003c\/i\u003e. The eighth album by Meric Long and Logan Kroeber still plays as if in freefall, but things are different this time. Meditative and sometimes painful in its emotional excavation, over the course of ten anthemic, gorgeously-rendered tracks, \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Peak\u003c\/i\u003e reveals itself as that place Long and Kroeber were always desperately trying to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he was toying with the beginnings of what would become \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Peak\u003c\/i\u003e, Long began to feel the early twinges of arthritis in his fingers. Anyone familiar with Long’s style — an aggressive, rhythmic, weighted approach to fingerpicking developed and perfected over the past 15 years — will understand that this is akin to a runner feeling their legs wear down beyond repair, or the lungs of a brass player beginning to atrophy: an unfair, natural decay that bears immense, life-changing weight. “Guitar has always been my ticket out from feeling worthless, insecure — perhaps I never quite grew out of that moment in my adolescence where I discovered playing the guitar made me feel better than what my mind or others told me,” Long says. “It also became such a huge part of identity, that I probably latched on to it a little too much, and I guess feeling the beginnings of arthritis was sort of a sign of the impermanence of that identity. If I can't play the guitar anymore — the way that, at least in my own mind, defined me so much — then what else am I?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat driving force, then, animates \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Peak\u003c\/i\u003e. Although The Dodos have always been a band enamored, somewhat, with the idea of what it means to be ‘The Dodos’ — a duo for whom their own music provides inspiration enough — \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Peak\u003c\/i\u003e is, perhaps, the first Dodos record to look back, to take stock of Long and Kroeber’s life as one entity. (How dryly funny, and how fittingly literary, that a band in seemingly constant motion would find its ideal form to be in looking to the past.) On the wistful, gut-wrenching opener “Annie,” Long intones, in that anthemic, ever-familiar tone: “The show is about to start.” It’s an overture to the opera of The Dodos’ life, a warning and an invitation that the music enclosed therein will be challenging, true, and, befitting a band who have built such an edifice over the past near-two-decades, incredibly hard-won.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Annie,” which starts small and builds until it’s one of The Dodos’ brightest, most bombastic songs ever, is a kind of statement of intent for \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Peak\u003c\/i\u003e. “Annie,” all cavernous boom and warm, enveloping melody, reaches that place of what the inside of a guitar might sound like, wholly and triumphantly. At the same time, the song introduces themes Long grapples with over the course of the entire album: forgiveness, regret, shame, and, above all, profound, enduring love. It roils with the discontent of knowing things could have been different: “Annie, can you forgive me? We were going to ride it til the end…” You can feel the physical weight of the song’s lyrics in the production — a result of Long’s edict that there would be only physical instruments on \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Peak\u003c\/i\u003e. “I started to appreciate again the physicality of the things being hit, actual vibrations of strings, drumheads. No matter how hard you hit a synth it won't give that impact, and impact is one of those things that's really tied to the sound of this band,” he says. “One of my early production principles for this record was that everything had to be played on a real instrument. 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As time has a way of repeating itself, his latest wave of inspiration came crashing in, sweetly and literally, from his young daughter's toy drum kit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt all began when I tried to see if I could make her drum set sound cool\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,” says Long. 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The album’s opening track, “Split Decision,” illustrates this feeling perfectly, providing the perfect backbone for the rambunctious and chaotic guitar work to follow. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat same intensity carries throughout the album, particularly on lead single, “A Small Act of Defiance,” which brims with nervous energy as Long’s rallying call to stop and reset before it’s too late conveys nothing short of immediate urgency. The song’s pummeling percussion and pulsating saxophones rock in syncopation, giving way to the sensation of barreling down an unforgivingly steep Bay Area street. It’s Long’s aim to awaken in time to pull the emergency break, singing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“We’re on a fast track down to hell \/ Thinking it’s some heaven you built \/ Who will be resting on the spit \/ When it’s the celebration’s end?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the standout exception of vocal contributions from Spacemoth’s Maryam Qudus, and saxophonist Forrest Day, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKablooey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the sound of Long in a solitary quest of sound and inspiration – playing every other instrument by himself, often tinkering deep into the night after finishing another artist’s session hours earlier. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKablooey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is yet another meaningful snapshot into the mind of Meric Long, whose decades-spanning contributions to music have been a major influence to California’s indie rock scene. 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