LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ Bang On PR) After releasing one of the 2011's cult gems with album'Both Ways Open Jaws', touring abroad and playing two sold-out London shows, French/Finnish duo The The Dø are back with new single 'The Wicked & The Blind', out April 9th on Village Green.
Written and produced by
Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy - aka French/Finnish art-pop duo The Dø - this new single sees the band pull in the reigns for a sultry, low-riding saunter through a rich orchestral tableaux, where strings and organs swell over the dark shuffle of psychedelic rhythms. Arguably the most technically accomplished track from the album, The Dø pull off the feat of sounding at once sparse and overwhelmingly rich.
In her characteristically cosmic guise,
Olivia sings; "You are the one/the precious stone/you've been chosen by the sun," her voice merging with Dan's to create a duet in the grand tradition.
Their stunning LP 'Both Ways Open Jaws', has been gathering praise from across the board. Written and produced by Dan and Olivia, with multi-instrumentalist Dan taking turns on sax, piano and harpsichord, among others, it's all pulled together by an underlying pop sensibility.
"What we're really looking for is adventure," says Dan. "We don't want to know exactly where we're going all the time. I want to be lost. For me, our music is a landscape."
Are you ready to get lost with them…?
The Dø play London's Garage on April 11th Buy Tickets
Praise for The Dø
Contender for album of the year" - The Times ****
Cult status beckons - Evening Standard ****
Tribal, prickly and wickedly playful - NME ********
Paris based pair dazzle with deluxe Europop manifesto...a classy musical ancestry including Bjork, Fever Ray and The
Cardigans - Uncut ****
They're the brains behind some of the most insanely catchy pop on the market - Sunday Times Culture
'Single of the Week' Drowned in Sound
Truly impressive. The Dø gracefully pull off the kind of intriguing 'oddness' the likes of Florence Welch strain and wheeze for, and with better tunes - BBC Music
The contradictions between the band's knowing appropriations and its calls against jaded cynicism resolve themselves in the album's intricately rewarding attention to rich and unexpected sonic details...Both Ways Open Jaws has teeth like a shark - Pitchfork 7.5
Listen to The Wicked and the
Blind here
https://soundcloud.com/thedo/the-wicked-the-blind
