Visiter

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Visiter
Visiter.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 18, 2008
Recorded2008
Genre
Length59:00
Label Frenchkiss
Producer John Askew
The Dodos chronology
Beware of the Maniacs
(2006)
Visiter
(2008)
Time To Die
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Crawdaddy! (favorable) [2]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Indiecision(A) [5]
MusicOHMStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME (8/10) [7]
Pitchfork Media (8.5/10) [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
PopMatters (6/10) [11]

Visiter is the second album released by The Dodos. A special edition is being put together to include a DVD of live footage from the last show of their most recent tour.

Contents

In an April 2008 interview in the L.A. Record, band member Meric Long revealed the origin of the name of Visiter. "The reason it's misspelled is because it's from a drawing this kid gave us. We played a show for a bunch of kids in South Central L.A.—Dorsey High. A friend's sister [Barbara Lempel] is a special-ed teacher there, so we went down there to her class and we played for the kids and it was super fun. Then it came to the kids asking us questions and then one of the kids came up to us and he gave us a drawing with that written on it. The drawing is the cover actually of the album, and just—I dunno we liked it. Actually we used all of the drawings that the kids made in the artwork on the album. It was definitely a fun, interesting venture for us. We'd never played for kids before—we didn't know what to expect but they were clapping and dancing."

Track listing

All tracks written by The Dodos.

No.TitleLength
1."Walking"2:09
2."Red and Purple"4:40
3."Eyelids"0:59
4."Fools"4:43
5."Joe's Waltz"7:22
6."Winter"3:44
7."It's That Time Again"1:29
8."Paint the Rust"6:15
9."Park Song"2:49
10."Jodi"6:14
11."Ashley"4:04
12."The Season"6:15
13."Undeclared"1:53
14."God?"6:51

Personnel

Guests

Credits

Recorded and mixed at Type Foundry Studios. All tracks mastered by Roger Seibel at SAE in Phoenix, AZ. Additional Vocals on various tracks by Laura Gibson

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