View basket “They Sound The Same Underwater” 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 Touché Amoré Stage Four Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP Released 16th September 2016 £11.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Touché Amoré Stage Four £11.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 274741 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Atomçk Towering Failures Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Superfi | 1LP Released 1st December 2023 £13.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Atomçk Towering Failures £13.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Superfi SKU: SF109 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st December 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Emma Ruth Rundle May Our Chambers Be Full Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sacred Bones Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th December 2020 £ Select options Emma Ruth Rundle May Our Chambers Be Full £ Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sacred Bones Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th December 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Glands, The Double Coda Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | New West | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 6th November 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Glands, The Double Coda £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: New West SKU: NW5245LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 6th November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Menzingers, The On The Impossible Past Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 180g, 1LP Released 20th February 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Menzingers, The On The Impossible Past £14.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 271701 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 20th February 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pile A Hairshirt of Purpose Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Exploding in Sound Records | 1LP Released 31st March 2017 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pile A Hairshirt of Purpose £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Exploding in Sound Records SKU: 811774026482PMI Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blitzen Trapper Furr (Deluxe Edition) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sub Pop | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 14th September 2018 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blitzen Trapper Furr (Deluxe Edition) £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1253 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 14th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gone Is Gone Echolocation Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Rise Records | 2LP Released 6th January 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gone Is Gone Echolocation £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Rise Records SKU: 4050538240108 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 6th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Durutti Column, The Domo Arigato v2.0 Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Factory Benelux | 2LP, Includes 7" Released 26th May 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Durutti Column, The Domo Arigato v2.0 £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Factory Benelux SKU: FBN52 Formats: 2LP, Includes 7" Released Date: 26th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Between You & Me Armageddon Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Hopeless | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd February 2023 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Between You & Me Armageddon £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Hopeless SKU: HR6738-1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd February 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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