What they say: Dummy don’t keep their collective foot mashed on the gas pedal all through Free Energy. Later in the album, they slow down enough to show off all that they can do with echo and with layered voices. Emma Maatman, one of the band’s two singers, has this incredible tone that can radiate playfulness and loneliness at the same time, and the group has big ideas about uses of organ sustain and sculpted feedback. But even at their most expansive, Dummy never lose their grip on songcraft and dynamics. The tracks never get too long or indulgent, and whenever they go into the trippy zone, you always know that there’s another explosion of energy around the corner. - 9/3 Album of the Week on Stereogum

What we say: We all can’t get enough of Dummy’s Free Energy here at ol Sonic Boom! I saw them live in September and they rocked my world. This band really loves synthesizers…This album perfectly fuses Stereolab-esque synths, with elements of trip-hop, and shoegaze, and gorgeous soundscape samples. It’s lush, it’s fun, it’s cool— without trying too hard to be cool. Listen to Dummy! - Lola