Fusing folk, indie rock, electronica, and avant-garde pop with unusual percussion including bottle tops, plants, and saucepans,
Both Ways Open Jaws is the second album from experimental French-Finnish freak pop duo
the Do. Compared to the likes of
Fever Ray,
Lykke Li, and
the Knife, the genre-hopping follow-up to 2008's
A Mouthful is the first English-language album by a native act to top the French charts, and includes the singles "Dust It Off," "Slippery Slope," and "Too Insistent." ~ Jon O'Brien