[BPR01] Dumbo Gets Mad – Elephants At The Door LP

Happy the share debut LP by Dumbo Gets Mad

The digital release of Elephants At The Door is available just spreading the word with your friends. You will be asked to login to Facebook or Twitter, edit the proposed tweet/wall message – and click the download button. Simple. We invite you to download the mp3s (or click the artwork cover!), print the artwork, burn the cd-r, spread the word, share it with everyone you know and support the artist as you can.

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The separate stems [download] for the track You Make You Feel are now available for a contest remix. [Read more here]

Dumbo Gets Mad emerged in the summer of 2010 in Northern Italy and has now migrated to Los Angeles. His initial aim was to lay down some marvelous music in an organic manner, open to whatever direction the tunes took during the recording session. The first published track was Plumy Tale, which received positive reviews from a number of music blogs. Dumbo then decided to work on a debut album with an express goal and spirit in mind: “No matter what it sounded like, it had to be psychedelic!”

The result, Elephants At The Door, drops today. The album was recorded sans fancy technology, using old-fashioned equipment like analog synthetizers and tape machines—and lots of good vibes. (from Dossier Journal)

Reviews:

• The Needle Drop [8/10] : “Think of it as Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma from a psych rock perspective.”
• SlantMagazine [4/5] : “Elephants at the Door is an inspiring victory of DIY determination”
• Coke Machine Glow – Marmelade Kids track review: “This is probably the most potent free psychedelia you can have without growing your own peyote.”
• LoudVision [9/10]: “You can call it post-Loveless shoegaze, lo-fi or dreampop. We simply define it wonder.”
• Joe Tangari (Senior Contributing Writer at Pitchfork) : “Great psych band from Italy – Plumy Tale made my Pitchfork top 50 last year”.
• Redefine Magazine: “The ability to change pace and still sound coherent is what makes the album so satisfying.” (Erik Burg)
• NPR Song of the Day: Dumbo Gets Mad – Marmelade Kids

• Radiated Sounds : “One of my favorite releases so far from 2011”
• Blogjammin’ [9/10] : “There are more highlights than I have space to highlight them.”
• People Who Stare At Rugs [8/10] : “A mighty impressive album”
• Stereo Beatbox : “a perfect bastard son from a liberal relationship between Air, Led Zeppelin and The Velvet Underground”
• Potholes In My Blog [3.5/5]
• Spookrijder [8.5/10] : “The richest and most layered record you will stumble upon in a while, past or future.”
• Bears Eat Beats [8/10] : “A must listen for psych-rock fans.”
• PIG Magazine
• SputnikMusik [4/5] : “Think Grizzly Bear, but more uplifting. Think Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, but less hippie”
• JamYourself [8/10] : “Deeply underground and incredibly fascinating”
• Nerds Attack! [5/5] : “It could be the italian album of the year”
• RockIt
• Hickey (reviewed by Populous) : “One of the best kept secret of our modern pop”
• Indie Riviera: “First favourite album of 2011”
• Indie-Eye: “An unprecedented album – especially in Italy”
• Nathan Hill [7.9/10] : “This is no ordinary listen.”
• Alternative Block [8/10]
• Buzzlegoose [8/10]

• RockIt (interview)
• YVYNYL : “Electric Prawn is really a psychedelic song about a psychedelic prawn!”
• Hype Machine: “Not only this  band is great, they are doubly awesome for releasing their music under Creative Commons.”
• This is Fake DIY
• Italian Embassy : “Lennon-pop psychedelia meeting Dr.Dog and Flaming Lips, even guided through a contemporary black sound”
• MTV Iggy
• Vitaminic
• Blogpartei
• Chromewaves Radio
• Review Stalker
• The World’s Best Ever
• musigh
• Eavesdr0p
• Loving Peter Cetera
• doubtful sounds
• Frostclick
• Dossier Journal
• Frigopop
• Figurehead
• Odelay
• A Word in Your Earphones
• Good Pop Bad Pop
• Dirty Sexy Karma
• The Breakfast Jumpers
• Yo U-Turn
• The Circle : “This may sneak a peek onto my top 10 list of 2011”
• LookAtMe
• Big Echo
• Pravda
• Oh So Fresh!
• Dapper & Debonair
• Tons More Cowbell
• Rose Kohl
• Rocks de Milo
• Fang Yuan
• Mojophenia
• Stereosea
• Those Who Dig
• Burning World
• Cactus Mouth
• Celebral Pop
• Tunegrape
• Troysnoise
• Electro Pepere
• Ahdama
• Efis
• Diez a uno
• UncleFarcus
• De Graca
• Newdust
• JP’s
• See the Leaves
• The Irony Magnet
• DangerDance : “Like Ariel Pink and MGMT’s love-child that was born in 60′s France”
• Sugar Time
• Letters from a Tapehead
• Proper Songs
• Insomnia Radio
• AWD Castles
• 85 Decibels
• Sci-fi Lullabies
• The Steely Stylus
• Pop Le Bon
• 365 Albums a Year
• MusicVagabond
• Youmustlearn.us
• IndieBlogShot
• Forward Music