‘Misadventures of Doomscroller’ Finds Dawes Finally Embracing a Latent Jam-Band Sensibility: Album Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticYou remember the old saying: You lie down with jammers, you get up with jam.
Or, if not that, then maybe there’s some similar aphorism that applies to the situation of Dawes, the L.A. group that has earned some support on the jam-band circuit, such as it is, without ever actually being a jam band.
Until now, that is: “Misadventures of Doomscroller,” the group’s eighth album in a prolific 13-year run, makes it clear that all that proximity to expansiveness has finally rubbed off in a record that means to end no song before its time.It’s the biggest left turn that Dawes has made on record yet, although at its heart, “Doomscroller” doesn’t really stray far from the rock singer-songwriter template that has always been at the band’s heart.
Each of the band’s albums up till now has had its own innate personality, and you could be sure if fans thought one record was a little too acoustic and contemplative, the next one would lean more toward crunchy, concise power-pop, or something equally non-repetitive.
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