Name: Mandatory Enjoyment
Brand: Dummy

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TIM167LPC1

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Blue

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Sky Blue

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

Extended format: Yes

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Indies Only

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-26

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Signed copies: No

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Tax rate GB

Standard:20

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0793420071377

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

TIM167CD

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Extended format: No

2021-10-22

0793420071414

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Dummy

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Trouble In Mind

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Trouble in Mind is a record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 2009 by Bill Roe and Lisa Roe, two passionate music enthusiasts. Since its inception, the label has been dedicated to releasing high-quality music across various genres.
With an impressive roster of talented artists, Trouble in Mind has become known for its diverse and eclectic catalog. From *The Liminanas* to *Ultimate Painting*, the label showcases a range of musical styles that appeal to both mainstream and alternative audiences.
As an independent label, Trouble in Mind prides itself on providing a platform for emerging artists to share their unique voices with the world. The label's commitment to nurturing talent has resulted in numerous critically acclaimed releases and collaborations.

Dummy refuses to slow down. After releasing two cassette EP’s in 2020 (on Popwig and Born Yesterday respectively), Dummy’s debut full-length album arrives via Chicago’s Trouble in Mind Records. Employing pummelling guitars and celestial ambience within the same breath, the band folds a myriad of reference points into their drone-pop style. Influence from ’60s melodicism and ’90s UK noise pop can be found woven in with inspiration from spiritual jazz, Japanese new age, and Italian minimalism. Dummy dodges the brooding, dark, dramatic tropes of contemporary “artistic” music often found in punk, experimental, and electronic, instead insisting on joyous and euphoric sonic palettes. They refuse to be artistically stagnant, continuously shifting their approach to writing across 12 tracks. 

Shaped by performances around Los Angeles in 2019, songs like Daffodils and Fissured Ceramics feature relentless driving energy and ample psychedelic noise. Elsewhere, Dummy counterbalances the aggression with meditative synthscapes focused on sound design and studio experimentation, like on the motorik X-Static Blanket. Finally, centrepiece H.V.A.C. and the album’s final track, Atonal Poem, seek to synthesize these two poles, offering multi-part journeys through uncharted sonic territory. In contrast to blissed-out instrumentation, Dummy’s sardonic lyricism examines “the burden of modern life, consumerism, environmental collapse, alienation, and other anxieties born out of living in this absurd moment in history”. Interior design, marine pollution, the psychology of commercial architecture, and nuclear testing are all featured subjects. Dummy’s restless creativity keeps them moving ever-forward, continuously challenging themselves and pushing their sound into exciting and exhilarating places.

Recommended if you like: Silver Apples, Laraaji, Velvet Underground, Stereolab, Cluster, Antena, My Bloody Valentine, Haruomi Hosono, Carl Sagan, Yo La Tengo, Finis Africae, Midori Takada. 

Mandatory Enjoyment

Music GB

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