Dummy "Mandatory Enjoyment" COLOR:BLUE Recorded in 2003

Recorded in 2003

Loosely based on various works by the 19th century author Edgar Allan Poe into a single narrative taking place from 1953 to 2023

and a renewed creative vision

With driving drum grooves and intricately layered microtonal guitars

's career isn't necessarily one that lends itself well to anthologies

Dummy "Mandatory Enjoyment" COLOR:BLUE Recorded in 2003Los Angeles band Dummy refuses to slow down. After releasing two cassette EP's in 2020 (on Popwig and Born Yesterday respectively), Dummy's debut full length album arrives via Chicago's Trouble in Mind Records. Employing pummeling guitars and celestial ambience within the same breath, the band folds a myriad of reference points into their drone pop style. Influence from '60s melodicism and '90s UK noise pop can be found woven in with inspiration from