Dummy's 'Mandatory Enjoyment' is drone-pop perfection. Read LizzieManno's review:
Pop music’s truest essence is arguably its emotional immediacy. Songs are arranged with a knowledge of how to trigger the brain’s pleasure centers, which in turn heightens the emotions of the lyrics. Experimental music, on the other hand, often makes sonic choices that are antithetical to those same pleasure centers, utilizing challenging sounds or sequences that evade traditional pop structures to prompt new sensory experiences.
Los Angeles five-piece Dummy not only share the Velvets’ well-crafted fusion of avant-garde and accessible sounds, but also their krautrock-like propulsion and rough-edged sonics. But Dummy’s noise-pop, ambient and new-age leanings are where they diverge from the classic New York City band. Over the past two years, Dummy have released reliably interesting drone-pop, marked by synths that fizz away as their guitars and percussion lock into stimulating pulses.
The album features some of their most endearing and memorable vocal moments yet. The wistful, back-and-forth vocals of “Daffodils’’ evoke a transcendent, summery bliss, as they sing in a reassuring tone, “Always put your best foot forward / Orange to brown, no tomorrow / When you’re standing tall, you needn’t look down.” At the tail end of the track, scratchy, violent shoegaze guitars join in, but rather than dismantling the track’s secluded serenity, they heighten it even further.
“Cloud Pleaser” and “Atonal Poem” are among the most thought-provoking compositions. “Cloud Pleaser” is chock full of strummy, chunky guitars and babbling background synths, and between the guitars and keys, they traverse a virtually infinite combination of tones. Add the unexpected pause to spotlight some rapid strumming, and it’s definitely a song that makes you lean forward.
Several of 2021’s most beloved and interesting albums feature a cerebral, textured chaos that sparks a wide range of emotions—including records by Spirit of the Beehive, The Armed and Turnstile—andcertainly accomplishes that same feat. Their blend of noise-pop and new age music works on multiple levels, especially because both subgenres thrive on the fascinating intermingling of electronic and organic components.
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