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D.D Dumbo – Satan

May

posted by tommy

Today, the unthinkable happened. D.D Dumbo dropped new music. Many of you are going to try to level with me here, you’ll say “Tommy! It hasn’t been that long! 2014 was a while ago but he was getting the record RIGHT!”
You’ll be right about one thing, he’s used his time well, but you’ll be wrong about that date. The EP actually dropped on 2012 which is closer to a thousand years ago than three. It was rereleased two years later once D.D (real name Oliver Perry) signed a deal with 4AD but they then cut two tracks from the record, making it a four tracker instead (RIP ‘Dinghy’ and ‘King Franco Picasso’) so it wouldn’t be unfair to say that in the past 4 years, D.D Dumbo has actually released -2 tracks (certainly not a whole lot). Big news today friends, very big news indeed. Perry has reduced the deficit to a very manageable -1 with a song called ‘Satan’.

Those who know me well will know I’m a man of religious convictions so I’ve a good radar for when an artist is intentionally pushing my buttons with a track title like ‘Satan’, and Perry, I don’t much appreciate it you son of a gun. Undoubtedly it’s a response to the shots fired yesterday through the Sound Doctrine Facebook (read only if you’re prepared for heavy shade, the likes of which only an Evergreen Alder can typically boast, though year round). He fired back, with a song he must have written, tracked, mixed and mastered over night and a video clip that must have been shot and processed this morning before I woke (no mean feat, I woke at 620). Now I’m calling for armistice because I’m no sufficiently armed to deal with something of this magnitude. Heck of a thing to pull off in thirteen hours though, heck of a thing.

The track itself is what I’ve come to expect from one of Castlemaine’s finest sons (alongside Lower Spectrum, cop an age old remix here). Wildly imaginative both sonically and lyrically, Perry’s words often seem to have an astral otherworldliness to them and a deep grounding in philosophy and religion.

Strange days movin on
AI and the Higgs Boson
And the looming deadline
Murder suicide
I pray for everyone
As a godless sapien

The magic of D.D Dumbo’s artistry is that the rawest elements of his personality and emotional quirks are all present in the records. And when that sort of character merges with this sort of raw talent the resulting record tends to be well… Something like this. Large, unique and fiercely creative, harnessing sounds which don’t subscribe to any particular scene or movement.

There’s no word on the album date yet but what I have heard is that it WILL contain this brain/heart wrenching record that he’s teased live for years. He’s touring East Coast in late July and early August and if you’re not there then may the Lord have mercy on your wretched soul.

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