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| Pitchfork |
 Finnish vocalist Olivia Merilahti and French multi-instrumentalist Dan Levy are nothing if not aware of other pop music. The best song on the duo's debut album as the Dø, 2008's A Mouthful, is a bittersweet rewriting of Etta James' walking-down-the-aisle standby "At Last", a take that makes the 1960 original sound inappropriately boastful by comparison-- not least by swapping out the classic song's orchestral swoon for understated, autumnal indie rock recalling Liz Phair, Mary Timony, or Sleater-Kinney. The first song on the album, "Playground Hustle", could be described as "M.I.A. and Kala Down by the Schoolyard." At Roskilde that year, I saw them cover Cee Lo Green's then-ubiquitous hit with Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy".
The Dø's sophomore album-- finally available worldwide after being released in some parts of Europe this past March-- keeps up the genre-hopscotching whimsicality of the debut while also urging us to approach music more innocently. The subtle difference is apparent from the best song on Both Ways Open Jaws, video selection "Too Insistent": Where "At Last!" holds back from excessively gloating about love, this song rejects our advances altogether; rather than smolder with melancholy, it perches Merilahti's elfin coo atop the kind of meticulously off-kilter, orchestral, and kids-choir uplift that makes Sufjan Stevens' "Chicago" or Jónsi's "Go Do" such hits with movie licensing dudes. The narrator compares herself to "a tiny toe," and questions "people who act like they think they have seen it all/ They're so indifferent." She's right and she's wrong; it's often easier to dismiss someone else's personal preference by labeling them as too-cool-for-school hipsters than it is to engage with the possibility they're right....full text |
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| Guardian |
| The Dø had a No 1 album in France last year with A Mouthful, which showed off their frothier take on combining the Knife-style eccentricities and the melancholy MOR of the later Cardigans albums. This, their followup, is finally getting an official UK release seven months after it first surfaced. It's a focused, determined sequel, sharpening their sometimes uneven sound to a dreamy, sepia-tinged set of songs that are far more elegant than the punk-pop-ish titles – Gonna Be Sick!, Smash Them All (Night Visitors) – would let on. The string-soaked The Wicked & The Blind, in particular, illustrates the strange, impressive feat they've managed to pull off with this record, which is to sound sparse and rich at exactly the same time....full text |
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| Nme |
| It’s a commonly held truth that when it comes to decent European pop, Scandinavia is where it’s at and France is where it definitely is not. However, on their second album, French/Finnish duo The Dø are helping l’Hexagone conquer the Vikings. ‘Both Ways Open Jaws’ is tribal, prickly and wickedly playful, courtesy of singer Olivia Merilahti’s loopy vocal. The apocalyptic jump-rope skits of ‘Gonna Be Sick!’ and ‘Slippery Slope’ are highlights of a chaotic record that makes such a racket, you’ll be able to hear Sweden quaking in its boots....full text |
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