The Dodos - Visiter [2008]

Visiter, by San Francisco band The Dodos, is their second full length and first for Frenchkiss. Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long would gig around SF playing folky guitar with a combination of loops and ambient keyboards. Having already studied West African Ewe drumming, Meric got turned onto country blues fingerpicking and sought to create a band where the drumming could be a center role and help bring out the syncopated rhythms coming out of the acoustic guitar. Through a chance introduction by a roommate, Meric met Santa Cruz transplant Logan Kroeber, who had also been experimenting with drumming, but in the area of progressive metal.



1 Walking

2 Red & Purple

3 Eyelids

4 Fools

5 Joe's Waltz

6 Winter

7 It's That Time Again

8 Paint The Rust

9 Park Song

10 Jody

11 Ashley

12 The Season

13 Undeclared

14 God?