Two decades after co-founding the Dodos with drummer Logan Kroeber, singer and guitarist Meric Long will release his first solo album under his own name. The record, Kablooey, is out this Friday, October 24, via Polyvinyl. Below, listen to the new album’s lead single, “A Small Act of Defiance.”
Long worked on Kablooey in between shifts as an in-house engineer at John Vanderslice’s Oakland, California, recording studio, Tiny Telephone. “This album was really meant to be fun and not too purposeful,” Long shared. “I put a lot into it as one would expect, but I really just wanted to make something that was fun and allowed me to follow my more ‘amped-up kid in a candy store’ impulses.”
Kablooey follows the Dodos’ 2021 album, Grizzly Peak. It also follows Long’s true solo debut, a 2018 album called Barton’s Den that he released under the moniker Fan.
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Kablooey:
01 Split Decision
02 Exit Forward
03 A Small Act of Defiance
04 Maybe I Forgot
05 1+1
06 Closer
07 Rinse and Repeat
08 Is This It
09 Slowburn