Misadventures Of Doomscroller

LAのオルタナティブ・ロック・バンド、ドーズの8thアルバム!
本作はロジャー・ウォーターズ、ファーザー・ジョン・ミスティ、ジェニー・ルイスなどを手掛けてきたジョナサン・ウィルソンがプロデュースを務め、カルフォルニア州トパンガにあるジョナサンのスタジオにてレコーディング。
ゲストとしてパニック・アット・ザ・ディスコ、アンドリュー・マクマホン、フォール・アウト・ボーイなどの作品に参加しているシンガー・ソングライター、マイク・ヴァイオラがボーカルで参加!
60年代～70年代のウェスト・コースト・ロックを彷彿とさせるタイムレスなメロディー、卓越した演奏力で人気を博してきたドーズ。
今作では持ち前の独特なライブ感に焦点を当て、彼らの天性の音楽性を表現。これまでの作品をより高次元で発展させ、より壮大でサイケデリックな作品!
"常にミニマリストであろうとしてきた"というバンドが“マキシマリスト"を目指し、自分達の殻を破って挑戦して完成させたという意欲作!

With 2022s Misadventures of Doomscroller, Dawes have crafted one their shortest and tightest albums to date that also happens to be one of their most enjoyably experimental. Produced with longtime associate Jonathan Wilson, the record is a brief at seven tracks. Of course, two of those songs -- the opening "Someone Elses Cafe/Doomscroller Tries to Relax" and the closing "Sound That No One Made/Doomscroller Sunrise" -- are over-nine-minute epics, in which the band punctuate singer Taylor Goldsmiths poetic lyrics with jazzy guitar solos and fusion-esque instrumental sections. Its a vibe that evokes the proggy 70s style of Steely Dan without losing any of the emotive, singer/songwriter pathos that marked the best of their past work. As with 2020s Goodluck with Whatever, theres a sense that Goldmsith and his bandmates are still ruminating on the troubled state of the world and seeking refuge in small pleasures. On "Doomscroller Tries to Relax," Goldsmith sings, "So, lets enjoy each others company on the brink of our despair." This palpable blend of experimental rock and philosophically introspective songwriting continues throughout Misadventures of Doomscroller. We get the Fleetwood Mac-style guitar arpeggiations of "Comes in Waves" and the bluesy, barroom kinetics of "Ghost in the Machine." On the latter, Goldsmith underlines the existential dread at the core of the album, singing, "All the doubts and hesitations/I built up in my early years/Are under reconsideration/Through the music of the spheres." In some ways, Dawes stylistic explorations here feel akin to how their similarly inclined contemporaries Wilco also profoundly expanded their sound with 2001s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Thankfully, all of Misadventures of Doomscroller feels relaxed and organic to where Dawes find themselves eight albums into their career. ~ Matt Collar