As reported by the band last week, The Dodos new album, Time to Die, has leaked two months in advance of the official release. Due to this common event, they’ve made some moves to help keep their pockets from draining too heavily. Learn more over at Stereogum.

Since letting their album stream, a slew of mixed reviews have been flowing in from both amateurs and professionals. I have yet to listen to the entire album myself, but I did take the time to listen and watch the video for the new song, “Time to Die”, over at Spinner.

Despite some reports that their new album lacks the punch as displayed on last year’s Visiter, this particular song stands up strong on it’s own. It starts out slow with their new addition, a xylonphonist, using a unique strumming technique where he extracts a tone from the xylophone keys with a bow creating a piercing tone, similar to what you get when you glide your finger around the brim of a wine glass. But keeping with The Dodo calling card, they pump it up with native like drums about 2 1/2 minutes into this 6 minute romp. The fast paced strum intertwined with the soft vocals of Meric Long make this a great addition to The Dodos catalog, a catalog I unfortunately don’t listen to enough.

Time To Die is out digitally on 7/28 and physically on 9/15 through French Kiss.