Both Ways Open Jaws


Both Ways Open Jaws is the second album by French-Finnish indie rock duo The Dø, released on 9 March 2011 in France and in late October 2011 and mid-November 2011 worldwide.

Critical reception

, a review-aggregating website, gives the album a combined rating of 75 out of 100 from 16 reviews, which is classified as a "generally favorable" reception. Only two of those were not in the "positive" range, both judged at 40. Mezzic gave the album 8.5 out of 10, saying "The follow-up to their debut A Mouthful has the band dive further into their freak-pop explorations, still striving to produce better music" and that "their sustainable collaboration has carried itself over to a promising sophomore album". BBC Music called the album "Truly impressive".

Track listing

All songs written by Olivia Bouyssou Merilahti and Dan Levy.
  1. "Dust It Off" – 3:42
  2. "Gonna Be Sick!" – 4:09
  3. "The Wicked & the Blind" – 5:08
  4. "Too Insistent" – 3:29
  5. "Bohemian Dances" – 4:23
  6. "Smash Them All " – 5:12
  7. "Leo Leo" – 3:30
  8. "B.W.O.J" – 1:43
  9. "Slippery Slope" – 2:41
  10. "The Calendar" – 4:03
  11. "Was It a Dream?" – 3:05
  12. "Quake, Mountain, Quake" – 2:10
  13. "Moon Mermaids" – 3:02

Bonus tracks

  2. "Open C" – 1:15
  3. "No Clue" – 8:01