Photo by Jason Watkins

Since their inception in 2020 stemming across two foundational extended plays and later in 2021, their debut full-length, Mandatory Enjoyment, Dummy have set out to be something other than the expectant sound — to defy the borders of shoegaze, punk, experimental pop, and new age in the same wavelength where you listen to a song and there is an exclamation point over your head in the realization that this is not just your average record collector’s rock band with ambitious pretentions. “Nullspace”, the first preview from the Los Angeles four-piece’s sophomore effort, Free Energy, is again prompting any and all sonic bubbles to burst, and not just in the sense that a Korg EM1 sputters synths elastic in its loop over centripetal psychedelia. “Top below / We swirl / Into density,” Nathan O’Dell and Emma Maatman’s voices soar into the the new matter that’s being built one particle at a time. That which they’ve become competes not with light or frequency, and rather forms something emitting a sound all their own.

Directed by: Emma Maatman

Dummy’s Free Energy will be released September 6th on Trouble In Mind Records.