The Bowery Ballroom (Venue Partner)
6 Delancey St
212.533.2111
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The Dodos, Photo: Jeremy Harris
- When
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Wednesday Oct 14, 2009 (8pm)
- Where
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Directions: JMZ to Bowery
- Price
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$17 / $15 advance
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“The Dodos pare down feel-good, folk-infused tunes to the bare essentials: guitar and drums, and now vibraphone with the recent addition of Keaton Synder. The resulting sound is delightful, with a layered complexity that fills in the lower register — a creative stand-in for the traditional bass. Tonight, expect songs from their excellent recent release Time to Die; it's slightly more melancholic tone is balanced with Meric Long's rhythmically upbeat strumming and Logan Kroeber's energetic drumming. New Zealand psychedelic indie-pop trio the Ruby Suns open.”
Chris Kompanek, Flavorpill
With a title like Time To Die, you might think the Dodos’ third disc is their ‘mature album,’ a deadly serious undertaking punctuated with string sections and synths. Nice try kid, but you’ve got it all wrong. While indie rock’s go-to guy, Phil Ek (Built to Spill, Fleet Foxes, The Shins), hopped behind the boards this time, the Dodos’ wildly- percussive style is still centered around two key elements: the punchy percussion of Logan Kroeber and the Fahey-infused finger-picking of frontman Meric Long. Time To Die introduces one major addition to the Dodos’ creative core: Keaton Snyder, a 21-year-old music school dropout who plays a mean vibraphone. As Long puts it, “He’s a better musician than Logan and I combined. I don’t even know what’s going on with his music theory ideas half the time.” That’s the thing about Time To Die: It expands the Dodos’ Ginsu-sharp sound without smothering it. It’s not the death of everything you adored about the duo; it’s a rebirth, revealing some serious career standouts (the widescreen payoff of “Small Deaths,” the string-and-drum spasms of “Longform,” the delicate/distorted dynamics of Snyder’s “Troll Nacht” parts) along the way.
