- Arthur Le Fol
- The Dø, moments before testing that engine’s bird-strike countermeasures
If you pay any attention at all to bylines around here, you know I tend to write about metal. Even my beer column is, at least nominally, partly about metal. But if anything, that should lend more weight to my recommendation of Franco-Finnish electro-pop duo the Dø, right? If music this shiny, bouncy, and accessible can win over a head-banging heathen like me, it must be really special.
I can’t fathom why the Dø aren’t bigger in the States, especially given the way Americans have latched onto Phoenix—who don’t sound nearly as fun to me. At least Schubas is a fairly easy room to fill. A small club packed wall-to-wall with 160 people usually makes for a better show (at least from the band’s vantage point) than a cavernous hall that looks nearly empty with a crowd twice that size.
