THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Dodging Dues is a startlingly expansive record — startling in part because it’s relatively short (seven songs, all but one hovering around the four-minute mark), but also because it traverses so many moods and styles: languid and dreamy one moment, surging and intense the next.
Garcia Peoples (these days a six-person band) hit their stride a long time ago, but here they seem to be hitting a dierent one, working themselves loose of influences (though this tree has roots: traces of Thin Lizzy, of more arcane bits of U.K. folk-prog, of vintage Meat Puppets in some of the softer passages) while at the same time opening themselves up to their own individual strangeness, becoming ever more singular and ever more free.”
