Video: Dr Dog, “The Ark”
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We have spent many a nights listening to “The Ark,” from Dr Dog’s latest opus Fate, pondering its existential lyrics and staring into our dog’s eyes, searching the empty space behind them for meaning in the simplicity of his thoughts (pooping, eating). We have yet to have any epiphanies. And this new video for the song, directed by Adam Kurland and Panoptic, doesn’t really help.
Audio: Dr Dog, “The Old Days”
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When we saw our old faves Dr Dog at Mercury Lounge a few weeks ago, two things became evident: 1) They are in the process of becoming one of the best live rock bands on Earth. 2) Their new songs sound really different. Usually that would mean we’re going to need some time to adjust and decide whether or not we should go on talking about that band’s old albums or trumpet their new stuff as if it were the antidote to every bad mood we’re going to have in the next year. In the case of Fate, we’re going to lean on it, because every new song they played was wilder, thicker, more willing to chop up the jam into smaller jam particles that smash into each other to create a wormhole directly to the best summer of your life. The first leaked song off Fate, “The Old Days”, is a pretty good indicator of that, although, as usual, recorded Dog is much less about sweating through oxfords than live Dog. Recorded Dog is maybe about rolling up your oxford sleeves and chewing on grass. Or like the guy we saw in the park recently who flew a kite with a literally mile-and-a-half long string and when people would stop to look he’d just tell them not to buy a kite at a stupid kite store but buy a handmade kite. If handmade means your kite can touch the sun, then yeah, we will fuck with that, just like we fuck with Dr Dog, because it just feels like somebody really put some effort into it and not to sell it to us but because it’s just better.
Stream Dr Dog’s “The Old Days” from Fate here. And check them on tour the rest of the summer.
Video: Pepi Ginsberg, “The Waterline”
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We can pretty safely file this one in the Things We Should Have Paid More Attention To folder (thanks to Daniel Arnold for making sure we didn’t overlook this one any longer), because Pepi Ginsberg is making some excellent Joni Mitchell-esque piano folk that also sounds like Dr Dog with a female singer. That’s probably not even a coincidence considering they are on the same label and have done songs (including this one) together. Seriously though, this is music for summer morning subway rides to work and walks in the park, both things that we plan on doing constantly. Happy Times dudes!
Audio: Dr Dog, Passed Away
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We’re not sure how long our bros in Dr Dog have had this entire album’s worth of old basement jams streaming on their website, and if you are a Dr Dog fan then this stuff is what’s up. Sure they are awesome now that they have stuff like “a real recording studio,” but some of their best songs were warbly and crazy catchy—totally shaky but no less great.
