When Dummy launched 2024’s Free Power, they stated the songs have been made to “get your physique transferring.” The consequence was rhythmically dense and unabashedly hooky, equally indebted to Seefeel as My Bloody Valentine. Afterward, they performed roughly 113 reveals, which knowledgeable their subsequent album, do you like the colour of the sky?, out Oct. 16 through their new label residence Polyvinyl.
Its lead single, “Full Spectrum Dominance,” continues to have fun motion, rising right into a lysergic, head-nodding dance monitor that displays their wide-ranging tastes. “I used to be attempting to make one thing simply heavier, and we joked it was our nü-metal tune,” guitarist Joe Trainor says. “Through the recording, we added the tambourine that offers it a extra dancey vibe, Deee-Lite meets Deftones.”
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Vocalist/synth participant Emma Maatman provides, “That is the Technofeudalism bop. Tech billionaires are treating AI like the brand new alchemy, utilizing it as a supply of energy and magic. This supposedly soon-to-be omnipotent know-how couldn’t exist with out harvesting all of humanity’s mental property and collective work. ‘Prima Materia’ is the constructing block of all alchemical matter, so within the canon of the tune, we people are the Prima Materia.”
Earlier this summer season, Dummy put out a filmed recording of the Free Power minimize “Unshaped Highway,” carried out within the spherical at LA’s Lodge Room in December 2025. It’s surging and hypnotic, capturing solely a glimpse of their dwell present, which you’ll catch later this yr. Within the meantime, try each movies beneath.
Dummy – do you like the colour of the sky? tracklist
- “April Limousine”
- “Alluvial Fan”
- “Full Spectrum Dominance”
- “Squeaky Wheel”
- “Contact the Good Pace”
- “Music of Mana”
- “Omen Globe”
- “C.B.B.S.I.M.M.P.W.M.”
- “N of 1”
- “Heaven’s What You Make of It”
