San Francisco-based folk duo The Dodos are a noisy pair who can wrest an almighty racket from a handful of percussion instruments and guitars.
Red And Purple features an artillery of pounding bass drums, incessant tapping beats and relentless rhythm guitars amongst other musical fireworks. As the singer sweetly requests “come and join us in the trenches”, you feel you are in the midst of a musical battlefield and you suddenly realize what war it is good for. The last time folk music was this loud Pete Seeger was out the back trying to cut the electrics with a knife.
