2 posts tagged “anticon”

Dosh is another one man project, sometimes augmented by guests and collaborators (notably Fog's Andrew Broder, Andrew Bird, Bonnie 'Prince Billy', and others). His usual working method is to build songs layer by layer, armed with a drum kit, rhodes piano, assorted keyboards, and some looping devices. you can get a good idea of how that works in this video.

This track is from his newest album, "Wolves & Wishes," which I guess kind of makes it the title track. I don't have any particular reason for posting this one, other than that it was what rocked out to on my commute home today. A lot of Dosh's work has a more hip hop feel to it, often with slow melodies on top of double-time beats, or vice versa. In this piece, most of the parts work at a similar pace, with swift, overlapping melodic lines on synthesizer and sax over a peppy drum beat, giving the whole thing an unusually upbeat feeling.

If creepy, atmospheric pop is your thing, Thee More Shallows should satisfy. This insomniac lullaby combines unnerving textural elements, like a wailing chorus and pleading vocals, with an off-kilter 5/8 time signature rarely found in rock and pop styles. When performed live, it's equally haunting, despite being stripped of its layers. The San Francisco trio will be releasing their third album, Book of Bad Breaks, in Anticon on April 24th.