So, the Dodos’ new album leaked. Two months early. Of course it did. We don’t have to be coy about it because they’re the ones telling us, and are hoping instead of grabbing it you’ll visit their new album mini-site which features a 320kbps full-album stream, pre-order links, a free MP3, and a little video message to you, the honorable fan. Also they’re bumping up the digital release date to cut losses: Time To Die will be available at the Amazon MP3 store on 7/28 exclusively for a week, then at all the other digital retailers, and that first day the album’s gonna be really cheap (like Friendly Deals cheap). For now, you can hear the listen to the whole album at timetodie.net, and take home this souvenir MP3 of “Fables” as a parting gift:
Time To Die is out digitally on 7/28, physically 9/15 via French Kiss.
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Mediocre effort. This band is no Shins, they cannot work with a producer like Phil Ek. They need a more raw sound, but the main reason the new album is very mediocre is that they do not know how to write good songs and melodies.
Haha! ‘This band is no Shins.’ That is the funniest thing I’ve heard all 2009! Pretty sure they did work with Phil Ek. Yep. Just did. Quit crying.
Disappointing overall, seems like they have less edge on the new record.
Can’t believe how disappointing this CD is. Especially after their first two which were excellent.
Yeah I was looking forward to this but it was pretty forgettable.
I have yet to listen to the album so maybe the bad reviews will lower my expectations and I’ll enjoy it
this album will be a grower
nonsense you fools! this is great!
Tru. Visiter wore thin pretty quickly for me, but then I’m not really digging this lo-fi acoustic noise stuff of late. This sounds like a band that actually cares now, and that, in turn, makes me care. “Fables” has been on repeat at my desk all afternoon.
Yeah I really like this album, and approve of the production. It gives me of an Up Records vibe, which is something that I really miss this decade.
quick, come to a consensus………i don’t have time to illegally download and give a chance to an album that’s going to be anything short of amazing
where’d we go?
I was looking forward to this too. A few good songs, but yeah, ultimately forgettable.
You chumps need to listen to an album more than once before making a decision if it’s “forgetable.” It’s different from past albums but I still like it alot.
How I love the Dodos and how vocal I am about it! Alas, I have to sadly concur with the previous comments. I already had a sense of foreboding when I saw them live twice (once in Ottawa, once in Montreal): gone was the chair, the rotation of guitars, the reverb-soaked mic and the trash can and in came the awkward. Playing the new songs alongside the older ones made the contrast between the material all the more stark. There’s something big missing from the album; I can’t quite pinpoint it (is it the glossier production? is it that the songs are more pop, straightforward and a tad predictable? that the drums aren’t as present and powerful? or all of the above?) but it’s definitely not as engaging, dynamic, explorative, bluesy, and intimate as the first two were. Even Meric’s beautiful voice is hidden in the mêlée. Regardless, I still love and support them and I hope they will recapture that magical and manic energy despite the setback of the new set-up and the new material.
I think the record sounds great off the bat. too many haters.
Im with Dante….sounds good to me.
Really digging this record. The vibraphone rounds out their sound nicely.
Visiter turned me into a follower of The Dodos and Fables sounds just as good as their previous work. I will definitely check this album out by today. Sigh…if only I had caught them at the echo earlier this year…
We gonna find the piece of shit who leaked our album, and we gonna FUCK HIM UP. Wham! Six-string to the face.
Sincerely,
Logan Kroeber
LOOOOOL
Fitting album title.
I thought it was ok, though it’s no Visiter. The drumming doesn’t feel as interesting or innovative as their previous material and there is no slide guitar (that I could detect at least!), which is a big miss in my opinion. It does, as some have said, sound a bit more pop, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, indeed the album is very melodious, and in many ways the album feels more coherent than Visiter, which was often tough to listen to all the way through.