Twenty years after co-founding the Dodos with drummer Logan Kroeber, singer and guitarist Meric Long will launch his first solo album beneath his personal identify. The document, Kablooey, is out this Friday, October 24, by way of Polyvinyl. Under, hearken 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 Telephone. “This album was actually meant to be enjoyable and never too purposeful,” Lengthy shared. “I put quite a bit into it as one would count on, however I actually simply wished to make one thing that was enjoyable and allowed me to observe 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 referred to as Barton’s Den that he launched beneath the moniker Fan.
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Kablooey:
01 Cut up Choice
02 Exit Ahead
03 A Small Act of Defiance
04 Perhaps I Forgot
05 1+1
06 Nearer
07 Rinse and Repeat
08 Is This It
09 Slowburn
