For over 15 years, The Dodos have been careening, almost recklessly, towards some perfect ideal of how The Dodos should sound. First formed with the intention of creating a record that felt and sounded how the inside of a guitar might, the band have spent the intervening years sprinting towards that platonic ideal. Now, after so long, finally: Grizzly Peak. The eighth album by Meric Long and Logan Kroeber arrives digitally November 12 – pre-order your copy now from the Polyvinyl Store. 

Today, the band share the singles "Annie" and "The Surface" in addition to announcing tour dates throughout the US this fall and winter. On the wistful, gut-wrenching opener "Annie," Long intones, in that anthemic, ever-familiar tone: “The show is about to start.” It roils with the discontent of knowing things could have been different: “Annie, can you forgive me? We were going to ride it til the end…” You can feel the physical weight of the song’s lyrics in the production — a result of Long’s edict that there would be only physical instruments on Grizzly Peak. 

“We had a lot of production goals when we set out to make Grizzly Peak,” shares Meric Long, “and the song ‘Annie’ touches on all of them. It’s a song about regret and accountability, as the first song it felt appropriate in disclosing what the intentions of the record are: rediscovering the initial premise for this band, while saying 'thank you' to our fans and those we’ve worked with along the way.”  Listen to both singles below. 

Meditative and sometimes painful in its excavation, over the course of ten anthemic, gorgeously-rendered tracks,  Grizzly Peak reveals itself as that place Long and Kroeber were always desperately trying to find.