Description:	CD and DVD set on Wichita
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	Wichita
	Price:	£10.29
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5
...according to our Brian on 22 May 2008.

It's a real goodie for albums this week. 'Visiter' by The Dodos is just marvellous. The main thing I glean from their music is that priceless feel of wild abandon that Department of Eagles gave me (these guys ain't so madly eclectic though) Billed as psychedelic folk, they're much more than that pigeonhole suggests. This album is flightly & warm sounding, the acoustics wrapping themselves round your head & heart, once again I must state that this is widescreen music. Meric Long and Logan Kroeber make a riproaring, vital noise that is much more than the sum of it's parts. if the Animal Collective dropped the Beach Boys obsession and wrote strummy hyper-pop with rudimentary percussion ala Violent Femmes they'd sound like this. 'Visiter' is packed with very bird-like music, swooping, soaring & free. The vocals are soothing, sing-song and pure. Occasional electric instruments such as guitar occasionally come to visit briefly but on the whole this is fast paced foot stomping soul music that I find riveting & delightful! There are some slower folksy moments but some of this is as rousing as Beirut, maybe less mournful, more celebratory. An absolute diamond of a record that provides real hope for 2008, one of the best years for new music I can recall! Wichita are responsible, hurrah!

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TRACKLISTING: 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?

LIVE DVD: 01. Chickens 
02. Trades and Tariffs
03. Men
04. Joe's Waltz
05. Ashley
06. Walking
07. Red and Purple
08. Fools
09. Untitled
10. Jody
11. The Season
12. Winter
13. It's That Time Again
14. Paint the Rust

OVERVIEW: SPECIAL EDITION of the critically acclaimed Dodos album complete with bonus 14 track Live DVD – a must have for any Dodos Fan

Includes the singles “Fools” and “Red and Purple”

Visiter is the debut album by San Francisco psychedelic folk pop duo, The Dodos.  Swiftly picked up by Wichita recordings after an exhilarating string of SXSW dates, the band have played numerous exhilarating UK live shows since the album was released

Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long would gig around San Francisco playing folky guitar with a combination of loops an
ambient keyboards. After exploring percussion and drumming, Meric got turned onto country blues and sought to create a band where the drumming could be a centre role and help bring out the syncopated rhythms coming out of the acoustic guitar. Meric met Logan Kroeber, who had also been experimenting with drumming, but in the area of progressive metal. Eventually the band changed their name to The Dodos.