After selling out London's Scala earlier this year, The Dodos have announced a special intimate London show for December 2011.
The Dodos began playing music together in 2005 when musician Meric Long, who had been gigging steadily in San Francisco as a solo singer-songwriter, was introduced to Logan Kroeber through a mutual friend (a college acquaintance of Long's that happened to be Kroeber's cousin).
The drums hit you in the chest first, spraying your speakers like swift gunshots. But then Long’s finger-picked chords kick in, cascading across Logan Kroeber’s brass knuckle beats like only the best Dodos songs can.
This forward motion feeling has driven the duo since 2005, but several key changes lift their fourth LP 'No Color' to another level. For one thing, the band reunited with Portland producer John Askew, the man behind the boards of the Dodos’ first two full-length albums 'Beware of the Maniacs' and 'Visiter'.
The main focus of the most recent album 'No Color' was to bottle the frenzied folk approach that’s been there since the beginning.
“I have a love for ‘90s riffs that I haven’t gotten to showcase in this band,” says Long. “The most fun I had with this record was when I got to strap on the electric guitar and come up with Billy Corgan riffs while the tape was rolling.”
It’s as if Long’s finally got to live the flannel-era fantasies that started when he was a teenager, tearing guitar tabs out of magazines at a local pharmacy. The catch? There’s less room for error than there’s ever been.
“We’re more naked this way,” explains Long. “You can hide a lot of your mistakes on an acoustic, but with an electric, every single note is much louder and more piercing. So I have to be way more on top of my playing now.”
The show will also feature performances from bands The Dodos hand-picked, Dignan Porch and We Are Animal.
The Dodos UK Live Dates are as follows:
December 2011
Dec 12th – Corsica Studios, Elephant and Castle, London
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