The Dagons
Antique god, half man, half fish, the name The Dagons says a lot on the music of the couple formed by Karie Jacobson (voice and guitar) and Drew Kowalski (drum). Hypnotic, bewitching, the duo’s garage style rock’n’roll brushes against dream and sensuality. Directly from Los Angeles, The Dagons offer an original musical and imaginary experience.
The Dagons have just released their 4th album entitled Reverse, on the Montreal label, Blow The Fuse.
Press quotes
An underlying sense of pop melodicism and working with three-minute windows… inescapable and unforgettable
Pitchfork Weekly
If The Cardigans were to allow themselves to be affected by heroin or another opiate, they might well end up sounding just like The Dagons.
Melody Maker
A stripped-down psych-garage aesthetic and lyrics that seem to suck the marrow out of the odd nightmares
Ice
Like Sylvia Plath reinventing Grimm's fairy tales
LA Weekly
What Yeah Yeah Yeahs fans might ask for if they weren't so distracted by the fuck-me and the fashion.
Helen Spitzer, Exclaim!
…ses mélodies, toujours accrocheuses à souhait et rendues encore plus désarmantes par la voix quasi enfantine de Karie Jacobson. Non seulement le mélange fait-il changement des innombrables pastiches garage, mais il nous offre le meilleur des deux mondes: le côté fédérateur et touchant de la pop ainsi que le noirceur et l'énergie du rock garage.
Olivier Lalande, Ici
La voix de Karie, d'une candeur et d'une beauté vaporeuses, ajoute grandement au sentiment d'étrangeté qui entoure les compositions.
Clémence Risler, Montréal Campus
Important shows
• Pop Montréal Festival 2005