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D.D Dumbo - Satan

D.D Dumbo - Walrus (official audio)

D.D Dumbo- Walrus

This gem of a track sparkles with its beauty and strikes with the force of a tectonic shift. 

D.D. Dumbo is the solo project of Australian multi-instrumentalist Oliver Perry and Walrus is the first track off his debut album ‘Utopia Defeated’. With this album and his previous E.P. ‘Tropical Oceans’, Perry has shown himself to be one of the most inventive singer-songwriters to emerge in recent years. with a sound that is rich, bombastic and full of emotion. The album is endlessly inventive and thought provoking, tackling difficult environmentally issues that belie the euphoric nature of the instrumentation.

In an album packed with standout moments for this just edged it for me as the highlight. The chugging main riff carries real weight behind it and hooked me in instantly. Perry’s vocals soar in a manner not too dissimilar to Jeff Buckley. In fact this song gave me the same chills as when I first heard Buckley’s ‘Mojo Pin’. This a wonderfully layered and inventive piece that transports the to another world else for a brief three minutes. I am also compelled to give extra props for the the seemless transition to and from the Zeppelinesque bridge in the middle of the song, nice..

D.D Dumbo - Utopia Defeated