As you may have gathered from my previous post on Dumbo Gets Mad, their new record is one that I am highly anticipating. I cannot tell a lie; it is the "weirdness" of Dumbo Gets Mad above all that drives my interest in this band. Of course, weirdness alone does not a great record/band/song make…something that DGM seems to realize, at least at some level of consciousness. Thus, they have continued to find ways to integrate their sound of modern experimentation and psychedelia into accessible pop/indie mentalities. Personally, I don't know if this approach can be more effective than what they do on their new track "Bam Bam".
The song opens with a basis of thumping psychedelic abidance and dreamy vocals. As the song goes on however, it builds in noisy melodicism until it finally reaches its point of no return; where the noisy synths and surreal song structure converge into a haze of unpredictable freak-folk melodies and trippy discoesque beats. This represents a surreal moment in time where a psych band reaches its pinnacle of melodicism, or perhaps where a melodic band reaches its peak of psychedelia. Whatever the case, it is a great display of merging hybrid genres into universally enjoyable music.
