The Dodos with The Luyas at One Eyed Jacks
 

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/imag.../mus_rec-1.jpg Anatomical fact dictates that San Francisco duo The Dodos has, at most, only eight appendages at its disposal at a time. This is worth remembering when listening to anything off the band's four albums, a quad-plotted octopus' garden overgrown with multi-limbed dexterity: pounding, West Africa-influenced polyrhythmic percussion; uncommonly powerful, blues-based acoustic guitar, a blur of scraped strums and finger picks; the incessantly jingling bells of 10 tambourines.? [ Read more ]

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