The Dodos

Editor's Review:

The San Francisco-based Dodos definitely have a unique sound—a gentle guitar-centric folk-pop that seems to have been crafted specifically to perform around campfires—but that sound is so all-pervasive on Visiter that the tracks eventually all blend together into one big hypnotic hippie sing-along and it becomes hard to describe individual songs as anything other than just really “nice.” A lot of their music feels only a shade off of “Kumbayah”—“Fools” even has that tell-tale hippie call-and-response nonsense refrain with a bit of a nautical flair. But there’s something oddly soothing about the Dodos, and their songs prove to be catchy little ditties even as they seem totally non-descript (“Red and Purple,” in particular, is infectiously peppy.) Visiter is a pleasant little oddity.


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Record Label French Kiss Released March 2008

Tracks Walking Red and Purple Eyelids Fools Joe's Waltz Winter It's That Time Again Paint the Rust Park Song Jody Ashley The Season Undeclared God?

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