20 years after co-founding the Dodos with drummer Logan Kroeber, singer and guitarist Meric Lengthy will launch his first solo album underneath his personal identify. The file, Kablooey, is out this Friday, October 24, through Polyvinyl. Under, take heed to the brand new album’s lead single, “A Small Act of Defiance.”
Lengthy labored on Kablooey in between shifts as an in-house engineer at John Vanderslice’s Oakland, California, recording studio, Tiny Phone. “This album was actually meant to be enjoyable and never too purposeful,” Lengthy shared. “I put lots into it as one would anticipate, however I actually simply needed to make one thing that was enjoyable and allowed me to comply with my extra ‘amped-up child in a sweet retailer’ impulses.”
Kablooey follows the Dodos’ 2021 album, Grizzly Peak. It additionally follows Lengthy’s true solo debut, a 2018 album known as Barton’s Den that he launched underneath the moniker Fan.
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Kablooey:
01 Cut up Resolution
02 Exit Ahead
03 A Small Act of Defiance
04 Possibly I Forgot
05 1+1
06 Nearer
07 Rinse and Repeat
08 Is This It
09 Slowburn
