DUMMY • Free Energy • LP • Pre-Order

Trouble In Mind Records
Release date: 20. June 2025
Repress on Clear Green Vinyl

On its second album, the Los Angeles band levels up its dizzying dynamic shifts and emphasizes Emma Maatman’s expressive voice. The result is a record of expertly crafted psych-pop that’s thrillingly kinetic and unbound.

Lots of parts of Free Energy might remind you of some other band or record, but the end result is a gorgeous collection of sounds and ideas and emotions, one that’s as deeply felt as it is intricately plotted. I don’t hear quotation marks when I listen to Free Energy. Instead, I hear a band in love with its own potential. On Free Energy, Dummy don’t sound a damn thing like Portishead’s Dummy, and that’s a good thing. Instead of emulating their namesake — or, for that matter, emulating anyone else — they earn their name.