Visiter | 
| Artist: The Dodos
Label: French Kiss
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 1120
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.1
MPN: 33
UPC: 675640912527
EAN: 0675640912527
ASIN: B0013LKZJQ
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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Condition: Brand new factory sealed
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| Tracks:
| • | Walking | | • | Red and Purple | | • | Eyelids | | • | Fools | | • | Joe's Waltz | | • | Winter | | • | It's That Time Again | | • | Paint the Rust | | • | Park Song | | • | Jodi | | • | Ashley | | • | Season | | • | Undeclared | | • | God? |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
Hooray rhythm! March 25, 2008
Kevin Satterwhite (Houston, TX United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If, like me, you were wishing for the next big tribal folk rock band to show up, our prayers have been heard. Wow, this album is good. Even though I've had my ears to the ground waiting for something grand to approach, this one tip toed past me. This album is epic. It's progressive and repetitious, subtle though outrageous, soft yet thunderous. The music in this album is so shiny gold I see my reflection shining back at me every time I listen to it. All right, I think that's enough metaphors...
"The Season" is my favorite song. Half this album features progressive six minute plus opuses. "The Season" is such. It's perfect from start to finish. It doesn't quite start off subtle. It grabbed at me immediately. The repetitious guitar melody and rhythmic clicking were hypnotic that I was in a trance. After a few lyrics, the tribal chants returned me to my stupor. The song progresses and the clicks become pounding drums, the lyrics become louder, the chants become screams and the soft picking crescendos into frantic strumming. It's awesome. "Jody" is another six plus minute opus worth calling out. The picking at the beginning is awesome. The pounding drums signal the song to begin to form. The bridge to the chorus is great.
"Park Song" is short but sweet. There's subtle, palm mute plucking and whispered vocals. "Walking," the opener, is probably the purist that Dodos approach folk. It kind of reminds me of a Willy Mason song. I love the banjo they used in it. "God?" is great. "God?" is good. "Joe Waltz," "Winter," "Fools," "Paint The Rust," "Red And Purple" all demand to be adored.
There are at least ten stellar tracks on this record. Some others are slight filler or one minute songs, which is to me is too short. Despite that though, this album is amazing. If you liked "Love Is Simple" by Akron/Family last year, you'll probably like "Visit" by Dodos even better. If you like this kind of music, check out Plants And Animals too. What a great year.
awesome March 24, 2008
brian (SF)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This has been by far my favorite new album of the year. If you haven't heard these guys yet, you will be extremely happy when you finally do.
Best of 2008 so far. Buy it. May 3, 2008
J. Mitchell (New York, NY United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic indie rock album that will grip you from the first listen. Even though it's virtually all acoustic guitar, vocals, and drums, it is very melodic and rocks quite hard. Almost every song on this album is high quality. Red and Purple, Fools, Park Song, and Jodi are standouts, but there are no throwaways.
This album is well worth the money for anyone that likes melody and rhythym. A must buy.
Different and great May 1, 2008
Samuel McDermott
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There's a lot of fairly derivative music out there, and it can seem that even the music that aims to be different has difficulty finding a unique sound. So when you hear a great review of a new album, it can be difficult to take it seriously.
But The Dodos have a clear and original sound that doesn't worry about artificially mystifying itself, nor keeping itself accessible. They just play music, and their has a sense of urgency that comes through the music, the lyrics, and the delivery. In many ways, it's an extremely well-rounded album; by which I mean that it doesn't rely on tricks (there's no "ballad" song, or at least not one that's more ballad-y than the others) but keeps itself fresh after repeated listens.
I would recommend tracks, but that's an unnecessarily reductive way to think about this music. Buy the album and you'll be glad to have it.
I can't stop listening to this album! July 7, 2008
Sean T. Murphy (Philadelphia, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just when you thought nothing is music could surprise you anymore, here come the Dodos and their fabulous album "Visiter". The instrumentation for the most part seems pretty straightforward, vocals, drums, guitar but as you get into the album, you'll be amazed at what they're able to accomplish. This album is definitely a grower, as you will probably enjoy the album as a whole on first listen, but on repeated listens the album really opens up and reveals its many charms. Among the 14 tracks there are several standouts including Red and Purple, God?, Paint the Rust, Fools, Jody, and Winter. If you enjoy male harmonies with interesting arrangements and foot tapping rhythms, there is plenty for you to get into here.
I listen to a lot of music and typically will listen to an album from start to finish and then swap it out for something else. Well, I've been having trouble with this practice recently as I simply can not stop listening to this album. For a straight week I don't think I took it out of my car's cd player. Really, anyone that typically enjoys interesting and moving indie music should jump on board. I'm not saying that the Dodos sound like these artists, but I think if you've enjoyed the latest albums by Sufjan Stevens, Destroyer, Grizzly Bear, Deer Tick, Plants and Animals or Andrew Bird that this cd would certainly fit in nicely with that collection.
Check this album out, and I hope you'll fall in love with it as much as I have.
Happy Listening!
Sean Murphy
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