On their 2026 album do you love the color of the sky? the intrepid shoegaze explorers Dummy continue to alter their template and come ever closer to fully integrating the Avant Garde and dreamy pop instincts that are their guiding tenets. Their previous album Free Energy saw them adding new age and experimentally soft sounds to the mix, here they strip them away and go for a more direct, if still at times challenging, approach. Pairing cloudy drifts of lush shoegaze guitar with thrumming drum & bass-inspired rhythms on many tracks, the overall feel of the record is more immediate. Tracks like the grindingly propulsive “Full Spectrum Dominance” delivers the kind of punch Curve did on their early records, which is a very good thing to emulate.

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