Dodo Bird / Beware Of The Maniacs
Album: Beware Of The Maniacs   Collection:General
Artist:Dodo Bird   Added:Jul 2007
Label:(No Label Information)  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-11-25 Pull Date: 2008-01-27
Week Ending: Jan 27 Jan 20 Jan 13 Jan 6 Dec 30 Dec 23 Dec 16 Dec 9
Airplays: 3 5 3 1 1 2 4 2

Recent Airplay
1. Jun 16, 2023: KZSU Time Traveler
Trades And Tariffs
4. Apr 07, 2017: KZSU Time Traveler
Trades And Tariffs
2. May 21, 2021: KZSU Time Traveler
Trades And Tariffs
5. Jan 27, 2015: In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand [W1503]
Horny Hippies
3. Feb 09, 2018: KZSU Time Traveler
Trades And Tariffs
6. Dec 12, 2014: Time Traveler
Trades And Tariffs

Album Review
canuck
Reviewed 2007-11-19
LOCAL indie folksy, often frantic fingerpicked guitar with interesting and/ or experimental drums. They are now know as the Dodos. Meric Long (guitar, vocals) often double tracks his vocals or self harmonizes. Logan Kroeber handles the drums in an off-beat and interesting way. Reverb, echo and looping is also added in to make things interesting. These guys have played a couple KZSU sponsored concert at Stanford and also WNL. This is really good. Let me make this clear: this is one of my favorite finds this year, local or otherwise.
-Adrian

My picks: all but especially 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11

1. med-fast tempo. alternates slow picking and fast picking. This is a fine example of the band's style.
2. mid tempo. starts sort of soft and subdued and sort of works up a head of steam throughout the song. Nice chorus. long fade-out.
3. fast. strummed. very energetic with more raucous drums.
4. med-fast. nice guitar rhythm, with background drums and various other sounds.
5. med-slow waltz time. just guitar, vocals and some piano later. delicate without being annoying or cheesy
6. med-fast. starts with thumping drums. soft but tense breakdown near the end.
7. med-fast accelerating to fast. fast, pretty traditional sounding fingerpicking with echoed vocals on top. Vocals tend toward strained near the end.
8. mid-tempo. finger-picked and gentle.
9. med-fast. almost pots-and-pans sounding percussion.
10. med-fast. starts with droney sounds and subtle guitar. a background of tense drums and some trombones.
11. sort of an outlier--toy piano, guitar and vocals. sort of a lullaby.


Track Listing
1. Trades And Tariffs   6. The Ball
2. Neighbors   7. Chickens
3. Men   8. Bob
4. Horny Hippies   9. Elves
5. Beards   10. Nerds
  11. Lily