Dummy: Free Energy (splatter coloured) LP

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Dummy's debut full-length "Mandatory Enjoyment" arrived in late 2021, becoming one of the year's sleeper hits and garnering praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum, and more. The band spent two years touring in support of the record, and it is this transformational experience that pulses through "Free Energy", the exhilarating follow-up to "Mandatory Enjoyment". A creatively restless band, Dummy wanted to get harder, dancier, more psychedelic for their next record. This meant applying explorative potentials of electronic textures to the elemental qualities of rock - i.e. more vocal loops, sampling, more crazy rhythms, and playful synths - but make those samples of Joe Trainor's guitar, let Emma Maatman sing bolder, experiment with using cold mechanical elements in warm and sparkly ways, and lean harder into traditional-yet-still-awesome forms of rock guitar experimentation like feedback. The result is a record that celebrates music's ability to move the body, whether that be through a teeth-rattling wall of MBV-esque noise, a sticky pop chorus, or a joyous drum machine - or, if you're Dummy, maybe all of them in the same song.