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Free Energy

by Dummy

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    releases September 6, 2024

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    shipping out on or around September 6, 2024
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    The black vinyl of "Free Energy" comes housed in a full-color LP jacket with added rainbow foil & includes a full-color printed inner sleeve!

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    shipping out on or around September 6, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $19 USD or more 

     

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    The compact disc version of "Free Energy" comes housed in a full-color gatefold CD jacket with full color, printed disc face.

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    shipping out on or around September 6, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

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    Clear cassette tapes with black liners & white print!

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    shipping out on or around September 6, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $12 USD or more 

     

1.
Intro-UB
2.
Soonish
3.
Unshaped Road
4.
Opaline Bubbletear
5.
Blue Dada
6.
Nullspace 02:54
Nullspace lucky fate for us glass breaks and open up where we sit now spiral around reach out open eyes top below we swirl Into density tells me nothing all we need nothing between compete not light frequency the places traveled far to rest beside you clouds are our floor
7.
Minus World
8.
Dip In The Lake
9.
Sudden Flutes
10.
Psychic Battery
11.
call them on their bluff again a carcinogen that's my unusual friend union of horologists with criminal intent can’t shake the usual hand drinking water paradise drifting along like an unrecognizable song hacking purple wilderness drifting along drifting along unrelenting time left to my own devices on a Saturday night expect another apathetic sigh whatever I told you wasn’t a lie mass extinction imminent a fact defined by any Euclidean mind confidently vigilant no one in sight go on in spite unrelenting time left to my own devices on a Saturday night expect another apathetic sigh whatever I told you it wasn’t a lie starts slow and you just don’t know that catastrophic pounding bite down and the tears just flow count backwards from one thousand unrelenting time left to my own devices on a Saturday night expect another apathetic sigh whatever I told you wasn’t a lie
12.
Godspin

about

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 feedbackThe 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.


“Free Energy” also features guest appearances from Oakland-based saxophonist and electroacoustic artist Cole Pulice (Moon Glyph) contributes saxophone and wind synths and Jen Powers of Powers / Rolin Duo (Astral Editions, Feeding Tube Records).

credits

releases September 6, 2024

Dummy Is: Alex, Emma, Joe, Nathan

Sax & wind synth by Cole Pulice on tracks 4 & 9

Hammered dulcimer on track 12 by Jen Powers


Recorded at Dummy H.Q. & Studio 22

Engineered, mixed, co-produced by Joo Joo Ashworth & Dummy

Mastered by Mikey Young

Art & layout by Emma Maatman

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Dummy Los Angeles, California

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