
Photo by Jason Watkins
Among the many highlights in metamorphasizing sounds throughout Dummy’s recently released, very recommended sophomore album, Free Energy, belies the atom at the core of those wavelength transmissions, “Dip In the Lake”. “New age” is a term that might not be the most immediately audible descriptor of the Los Angeles noise-pop quartet’s sonic spectrum, but here, the spatial exploration formed from soft reverberations of looped piano keys and synths clustering toward its center before expanding that energy out offers a release of tension otherwise heard from the listen’s surrounding parts. Its music video, directed by the band’s own Emma Maatman, likewise is a synthesis, tying together visual themes from the natural and a metaphysical worlds from earlier watches that may even offer you your own form of relief from whatever binds the mind…
Directed by: Emma Maatman
Dummy’s Free Energy is available now on Trouble In Mind Records.
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