Plankton Wat
The Vanishing World
＠Portland
Dewey Mahood としても知られる
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Man, I fucking love the bass on this record. In fact, the entire thing just feels like a love letter to a time when albums were made as complete things to be listened to as a whole; it’s no surprise that Dewey Mahood, founder and bandleader of Plankton Wat, states in his notes that he wanted to craft a ‘big studio album like the ones bands made in the 1970s’ and that bands like King Crimson and Can get a mention.
Conceived as a comment on life before the internet, the record screams nostalgia, but before anybody cringes, Dewey is too good an artist to make a derivative set. The Vanishing World is very much its own thing, and the ideas and quality of musicianship throughout the ten songs keep it interesting and exciting throughout.
And we do have a crack team of players present here; James Shaver’s killer bass lines (that I mentioned) run through songs like the thrillingly mercurial instrumental Hot Tropics and the more straight-up, almost Black Sabbath-esque rock of Surf King, injecting a ton of energy and forcing a wide grin. On the high-tempo Kaldi, drummer Dustin Dybvig maintains a banging fast line that allows Mahood’s fun guitar line and electric piano room to dance around, not to mention the shot of joy that is Victor Nash’s trumpet. It’s a whole lot of fun from guys who clearly love making music.
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