Dummy – 'do you love the color of the sky?' review: a pastel-hued dream world
On their fourth album, the LA band blend dream-pop, post-rock and drum and bass into a future as imagined in the 1990s. Critics give it 7/10.
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Single: Full Spectrum Dominance
Dummy, a five-piece from Los Angeles, released their fourth album on Polyvinyl on 16 October. Its ten songs play like a thought experiment: what if the present had been built from 1990s influences? The Line of Best Fit's Tom Morgan hears post-rock, liquid drum and bass, chillout pop and dream-pop, praising 'a softly-lit and pastel-hued otherland easy to get lost in'. He names closer 'Heaven's What You Make It' as the highlight.
The praise comes with a caveat: 'Look away if you want innovation or art that reflects the world today,' Morgan writes – though he adds that Dummy's vision of a better timeline may itself mirror today's anxieties. At Clash, Esther Akinborewa singles out the breakdown in 'Full Spectrum Dominance' and calls the record 'sonically disorienting but also incredibly cohesive'. Both reviews score it 7/10.
The video is the music video for the single 'Full Spectrum Dominance' by Post Man Animation.