Airick Woodhead is making a band called Doldrums. Or a VHS. Or a band and an album. Or a GIF. It's clear from his own description that Airick is using the term "band" as a mast to tie himself to while his consciousness leaves port and heads into the storm; his Doldrums project floats faceless in a sea of chopped up samples, disembodied vocals, tribal percussion and mind-bending visuals. After debuting live in early 2010 at Toronto's Whippersnapper Gallery, Doldrums have become one of the city's most mysterious and buzzed-about new names, performing alongside similarly-minded US acts such as These Are Powers, Past Lives, Japanther, and Pocahaunted, as well as releasing a VHS-only mixtape of music set to hallucinogenic videos compiled by Airick at his warehouse space in Toronto. Just returned from a tour of the west coast US, Doldrums is set to tour further around North America this winter, with a single on the way from We Are Busy Bodies and many other releases planned.
