Dodos' (aka Dodo Bird) sound is shaped by the marriage of two periods in songwriter Meric Long's musical history: playing in rock/metal bands growing up in the suburbs, and playing and listening to old delta blues records in his post adolescent years. Adopting a country blues style of finger-picking guitar, Meric blends in noise, electronic sounds and loops, along with the syncopated percussion of drummer Logan Kroeber, whose background in the Santa Cruz metal band Entragian made for a perfect fit.