View basket “Towering Failures” has been added to your basket. Free Energy Dummy SKU: 21.00 23.00 £21.00 - £23.00 £21.00 - £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Trouble In Mind Records Released Date: 6th September 2024 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Free Energy quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 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 feedback. The 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). Artist Dummy Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Trouble In Mind Records Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Intro-UB Soonish Unshaped Road Opaline Bubbletear Blue Dada Nullspace Minus World Dip In The Lake Sudden Flutes Psychic Battery Nine Clean Nails Godspin Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Dummy and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Dummy Dumb E.P.s Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sonic Cathedral | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 2nd September 2022 £23.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Dummy Dumb E.P.s £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sonic Cathedral SKU: SCR215LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 2nd September 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Weatherday Come in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Topshelf | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th May 2024 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Weatherday Come in £27.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Topshelf SKU: LPTSR226C2 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th May 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stone Temple Pilots Purple Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Rhino | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th May 2023 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stone Temple Pilots Purple £28.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497837090 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Protomartyr No Passion All Technique – Indies Only Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Domino | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 3rd May 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Protomartyr No Passion All Technique – Indies Only £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Domino SKU: REWIGLP154X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 3rd May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Funeral Shakes Funeral Shakes Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Silent Cult | 1LP Released 16th February 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Funeral Shakes Funeral Shakes £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Silent Cult SKU: SSSHLP003 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Aerial East Try Harder Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Partisan Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th February 2021 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Aerial East Try Harder £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Partisan Records SKU: PTKF2179-1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th February 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Murder By Death Like the Exorcist, But More Breakdancing Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Bloodshot | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th July 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Murder By Death Like the Exorcist, But More Breakdancing £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Bloodshot SKU: BS717LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tightwire Six Feet Deep Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Red Scare Industries | 1LP Released 16th November 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tightwire Six Feet Deep £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Red Scare Industries SKU: CCCP214LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Public Practice Gentle Grip Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Wharf Cat | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th June 2020 £17.00 - £19.00 Select options Public Practice Gentle Grip £17.00 - £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Wharf Cat Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th June 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Polvo Shapes Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Touch and Go Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 6th October 2023 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Polvo Shapes £26.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Touch and Go Records SKU: TG179LPC2 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 6th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ulrika Spacek The Album Paranoia Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Tough Love | 1LP Released 17th March 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ulrika Spacek The Album Paranoia £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Tough Love SKU: TLV086LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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