The
Dwellers are a rare band in this day and age, in the sense that they can
combine seemingly numerous types of music, generate the flow of one sound and
somehow still please my ears even though some of the comparisons I can draw
might not be made to things you’d find in my normal rotation.
At
first, I liked to call this a folk version of Bayside, which is in and of
itself cool, and then it blends into more of an electronic twee. There
are elements of Pinback or perhaps something that was once on Polyvinyl back
when Aloha was first making their splash there.
There
exists a heavy Beatles influence, but also there is some sort of chamber sound
coming out as well, like Animal Flag or Youth Lagoon. There are parts on Side B where it sounds
like The Killers are meeting Mumford, as well as the sort of mellow Flaming
Lips trippy sound.
Toward
the end, there is a sound that becomes sad, despondent and even bleak before
the drumbeats kick in. This particularly
reminds me of “Paranoid Android”, which again is not something high on my
playlist but somehow with the overall flow of this album it just seems to work.
The
Dwellers are like master chefs: they combine ingredients you might not enjoy
individually to create an overall burrito or roll of sushi or something that is
right with the taste buds. I don’t know how they do it, but this is a
good one.
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