The Dø return – French-Finnish Pop Band to Release Sophomore Album BOTH WAYS OPEN JAWS on November 15, 2011 in the US

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“Bearing a confidence and delicacy recalling Liz Phair, Mary Timony, and especially Frente’s Angie Hart, Merilahti’s girlish growl nestles within the gray tones of post-shoegaze 1990s rock.”
—PITCHFORK

“The secret of The Dø’s success is there’s a musical dexterity and ability which makes them stand out from the crowd.”
—DROWNED IN SOUND

“Sounding like The Cardigans with a dash of Feist’s world beat, the group encapsulates a variety of musical styles, resulting in a unique blend.”
—BLOGCRITICS

“In any language this would be considered engaging pop.”
—UNDER THE RADAR MAGAZINE

French-Finnish band The Dø conjure up an unlikely blend of indie rock, folk, dance, and mid-20th century pop. Taste-making website Pitchfork proclaimed their debut album A Mouthful “as ambitious and fun as any coming out party in recent memory.” MTV Iggy said, “Overall the album is a solid first effort, so have A Mouthful of The Do’s musical scale. You wont be disappointed.” Their hotly anticipated second album, Both Ways Open Jaws will be released via Six Degrees Records on November 15, 2011 and is already receiving rave reviews. A video has already been released for the first single, “Slippery Slope” and the song is available for free download. Hot website One Thirty BPM had this to say about the band and new album, “The Dø doesn’t really sound like anything else going on right now, but is just the next step in the evolution of fantastic musical art. Both Ways Open Jaws will strike you as both new sounding and classic, as both fresh and rooted in tradition. Most importantly, it will strike you as a treasure, and probably, as the best album you have heard in a long time.” “What brings the both together is their mutual love and talent for scoring films as well as their respective dabblings in rock, jazz and electronica. Their sustainable collaboration has carried itself over to a promising sophomore album Both Ways Open Jaws,” says Mezzic.com.

Singer Olivia Merilahti and instrumentalist Dan Levy first met in 2005 while recording the soundtrack to a French movie. After realizing their mutual love of music, the duo began to collaborate, and released A Mouthful in 2008 to critical acclaim. After touring the world on the success of the release, the duo spent the past year holed up in their recording studio in the Paris suburbs to create their next effort. Says Dan, “After the tour, we were frustrated by the technical restraints of performing live. So we came back to the studio with the idea of doing whatever we wanted.”

This mindset is immediately evident on Both Ways Open Jaws. The album reinvents itself at every turn, refusing to be confined by any one genre. Self-produced, the album includes sax, piano, harpsichord and trumpet just to name a few of the instruments played by multi-instrumentalist Dan. It is both technically accomplished and yet still manages to keep a lightness about it, which is largely in part to Olivia’s airy, shimmering vocals which veer from the primal to the tirelessly catchy.

As rich and appealing as their songs are, it’s the duo’s restless creativity and refusal to do the expected that make The Dø’s most recent effort, Both Ways Open Jaws, an album that will impress critics and fans alike.

Track List:
1. Dust It Off
2. The Wicked & The Blind
3. Gonna Be Sick
4. Too Insistent
5. Bohemian Dances
6. Smash Them All (Night Visitors)
7. Leo Leo
8. Slippery Slope
9. The Calendar
10. Was It A Dream
11. Moon Mermaids
12. No Clue
13. Open C

Slippery Slope video