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Since releasing their one-two punch of promising extended plays in 2020’s blurring and their 2022 listmaker, guided imagery, these pages have been looking forward to the proper debut full-length from Los Angeles new class shoegazers, mo dotti. Seeing them at this past year’s west coast version of Nothing’s Slide Away fest only validated that, as the four-piece of vocalist and guitarist Gina Negrini, guitarist Guy Valdez, bassist Greg Shilton, and drummer Andrew Mackelvie are capital-A Authentic when it comes to fully realizing the dreamverse of noise-pop nirvana through dazed-and-gazed wavelengths. That full picture comes through this fall, in a kaleidoscopically blurry vision at that, when mo dotti colors the world opaque. On its lead single, “lucky boy”, they’re lifting the effort into the air with a tranquilizing hit of sensory serotonin where Negrini’s vocals are aerodynamic against the elements. It feels warm to the touch in its soundscape sculpted from rippled guitars and baggy beat psychedelia, yet Negrini’s halo presence from outside of it makes what she’s searching for the more inviting aspect. “Sometimes I hate the sun / When it shines down on me / Quiet and strange / So mundane / It gets old in everyway,” she sings. Challenging our central source of light is no easy fete, but mo dotti seem to up to it when finding different ways to look at how it shimmers.

Footage by: Sophie Negrini

mo dotti’s opaque will be released September 20th.