For five albums—starting with 2006’s Beware Of The Maniacs—there was always something playful, almost ephemeral about the Dodos, as if they might simply stop recording at any moment. But the duo just issued its crowning achievement, new sixth set Individ, which sets serious subjects to Logan Kroeber’s galloping drum beats, Meric Long’s vibrato-resonant vocals and ethereal finger-picked filigrees, on thoughtful tracks like “Darkness,” “Bastard,” “Precipitation” and an ominous “Goodbyes And Endings.” Long and Kroeber will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on them.
Long: Happy People: A Year In The Taiga is a Werner Herzog film about trappers in the Russian wilderness. We’ve all seen people live off the land on TV, but these people are connected to their environment on a whole other level. It’s beautiful to watch, it has the classic Herzog voiceover, and you get to see people make their own canoes and skis.
Video after the jump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pOjj49d9Y
