D.D Dumbo

D.D Dumbo was the solo project of Oliver Hugh Perry, an Australian singer-songwriter who started it in Castlemaine in 2013 and put out the debut EP, Tropical Oceans, on The Blue Rider later that year. He spent 2013 opening Australian shows for Warpaint, tUnE-yArDs, St. Vincent, Jungle and Iron & Wine, then headed to South by Southwest, where 4AD signed him and reissued the EP in 2014. He made his British and American live debuts that year, opening for Daughter and Tame Impala, and landed a slot at Splendour in the Grass.

Utopia Defeated, cut during the winter of 2015 and finally out on 7 October 2016, is a strange, sun-warped record, full of odd little hooks. "Satan" and "Walrus" came off it; "Satan" won Song of the Year at the APRA Music Awards of 2017. The album took the J Award for Best Australian Album, and the 2017 ARIA Awards nominated him four times, including Producer and Engineer of the Year.

Then Perry vanished. His last shows as D.D Dumbo came at the 2018 Laneway Festival, and he went off the grid for eight years, until the project's Instagram flickered back to life in May 2026 with warped archival footage and an unreleased ambient piece.

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