The Dodos

American indie rock band The Dodos are an American indie rock band, consisting of guitarist and singer Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber. Originating from the San Francisco Bay Area, the duo has released eight studio albums over a fifteen-year span since their formation in 2005. History The Dodos began playing music together in 2005, when musician Meric Long, who had been gigging steadily in San Francisco as a solo singer-songwriter, was introduced to Logan Kroeber through a mutual friend (a college acquaintance of Long's that happened to be Kroeber's cousin). The Dodos are a duo. One was a student of West African Ewe drumming and intricate blues fingerpicking guitar; the other hails from a background in experimental drumming and progressive metal. Going from the raw, acoustic roots rock on their albums Visiter and No Color to the more expansive, pop sound of Time to Die and Carrier; guitarist-vocalist Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber have spent their career seeking to blur the line between the inherently melodic nature of Long's guitar and the rhythmic, atonal clatter of Kroeber's drums. The album Individ can be seen as a resolution of this duality, combining their old acou