In about an hour I’m leaving for San Francisco to attend this year’s Noise Pop music festival. And while I’m super-excited to eat one of these and shop here over the weekend, what I think I’m most excited about is seeing The Dodos.

Above is the video for “Fools”, the first single off their new record Visiter, which is shaping up to be one of my favorites of the year. I can’t quite yet label what I find so engaging about them, but the fact that they remind me of an unpretentious Animal Collective isn’t hurting their case any. I can’t wait to see how they manage, as a two-piece, to translate their music to a live setting. It should be good, since the percussion is only going to be that much more mind melting in person.

Visister comes out on March 18th on French Kiss Records.