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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
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
underrated, should be viewed as a classic, just amazing dreamlike electronic pop that sounds like cocteaus and sundays thrown into a glitched out blender Dummy