here is a fantastic new track by freak folk/avant-pop Franco-Finnish duo The Dø {Dan Levy et Olivia Merilahti}, called Slippery Slope, it is the title track from their forthcoming album "Both Ways Open Jaws" due out early 2011, but it is currently available on their "Dust it Off" EP.
Slippery Slope is a deliriously innovative genre bending experimental pop song, mixing tribal percussive beats et jazzy poly-rhythms with folk rhymes et hip-hop vocal styling, add to this a sublime amalgamation of eclectic instrumentation, intricately woven et blended together to produce a jubilant cacophony of sound.
starting off with a sparse, striped back percussive rhythm on kettledrum, with wood block hits/claps, Merilahti's incantatory, breathless vocals drone out hypnotically, reminiscent of childrens jump-rope rhymes, with her taunting, nonsensical et playfully sadistic lyrics, she also has a lazy hip-hop drawl going on et even puts on a twangy British accent as she brashly hollers: "Shut your mouth, analyse".
the song opens out into an exuberant, bombastic, dizzying, poly-rhythmic refrain, a deluge of layered rolling percussive barrages, tribal percussive rhythms et eclectic instrumentation, including maracas, a psyched-out recorder et kazoo et other body-percussion sounds create one rapturous, carnivalesque pop song.
Slippery Slope builds to a frenzied euphoric lunacy, a maddening cacophony of repetitious vocals et pounding, rattling, hooting percussion crescendoing et finally vanishing into thin air, leaving a ringing, reverberating tone in ones ear.
MP3: Slippery Slope
check out the cool new Slippery Slope video. there are definite influences from Kaneto Shindô's cinematic masterpiece Onibaba (1964).
the "Both Ways Open Jaws" album will be released March 7th, it will be available from Fnac on cd and vinyl! et if you missed The Dø's brilliant debut album "A Mouthful" (2008) you should definitely get your hands on it! you can find it online at itunes, amazon.
you can check out The Dø here: myspace | thedø | lastfm | facebook
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