Visiter

ReleasedMarch 18, 2008

Recorded2008

Genre

• Indie
• alternative
• folk

Length59:00

Visiter
Studio album by The Dodos
Released	March 18, 2008
Recorded	2008
Genre	Indie alternative folk
Length	59:00
Label	Frenchkiss
Producer	John Askew
The Dodos chronology
Beware of the Maniacs (2006) Visiter (2008) Time To Die (2009)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[3]
Drowned in Sound	8/10[4]
The Guardian	[5]
musicOMH	[6]
NME	8/10[7]
Pitchfork	8.5/10[8]
Q	[9]
Uncut	[10]
Under the Radar	9/10[11]

Visiter is the second album released by The Dodos. A special edition is being put together to include a DVD of live footage from the last show of their most recent tour.

In an April 2008 interview in the L.A. Record, band member Meric Long revealed the origin of the name of Visiter. "The reason it's misspelled is because it's from a drawing this kid gave us. We played a show for a bunch of kids in South Central L.A.—Dorsey High. A friend's sister [Barbara Lempel] is a special-ed teacher there, so we went down there to her class and we played for the kids and it was super fun. Then it came to the kids asking us questions and then one of the kids came up to us and he gave us a drawing with that written on it. The drawing is the cover actually of the album, and just—I dunno we liked it. Actually we used all of the drawings that the kids made in the artwork on the album. It was definitely a fun, interesting venture for us. We'd never played for kids before—we didn't know what to expect but they were clapping and dancing."