Leírás
Experimental, Punk, Indie, Underground,
140 grammos FEKETE színű bakelit lemez LP kiadvány, 2026-os album.
Mellékletként digitális letöltő kártyával, A3 méretű poszterrel és a dalok szövegét tartalmazó könyvecskével.
140g black bio-vinyl + sleeve, download card, glossy A3 poster and colourful lyric booklet! After 7 strange years of relative silence, and 13 years of being a band, Dog Chocolate have returned with ‘So Inspired, So Done In’. Their fourth album is their most focused, cohesive and song-y yet. They still sound like a bin full of wasps, but now the bin has double-cream or a Viennetta or something at the bottom. While many of the 16 songs on here barely make it past the 3-minute mark, each one is bursting with all the textures and colours of an office cupboard: full of old sweets, fluorescent markers, and multiple ways to fix paper together.
Thematically, a lot of ground is covered, with songs tackling subject matter as diverse as overheard conversations, healing fungal toenails, the Rogerian concept of the Actualising Tendency, bronze age living conditions, dreaming songs into being and human-plant relations. Work (and anti-work) is a recurring theme, as is artistic inspiration and burnout. Dog Chocolate revel in the mundane and incidental, to explore bigger, existential questions. Recorded and mixed by POZI’s Toby Burroughs and mastered by Sofia Lopes, ‘So Inspired, So Done In’ charts a long and confusing period in the band’s collective life, marked by major life changes, losses and shifts, colouring the band’s trademark frantic, daft and anxious energy with a contemplative glaze. Dog Chocolate continue to investigate their internal and external landscapes with playful curiosity, frustration, silliness and empathy.
Dog Chocloate built on this early scrappiness, bedding into their sound over several albums. Their first “Or” (2014) was a split with Ravioli Me Away, soon followed by “Snack Fans” (2016) and “Moody Balloon Baby” (2018). Along the way they played gigs with bands as wide ranging as Deerhoof, No Age, Dry Cleaning, Palm, Daniel Wakeford, Shopping and Pozi.
After the plandemic, some of the band’s members moved to different cities, got new jobs, some had babies, some encountered bereavement. All things that slowed down the pace of the band, making it harder to practice and play together. The band found a way to keep their friendship and creativity going through making a monthly radio show, “The CDRs Won’t Last”. This initially tried to chronicle the lost music of the Myspace era, but latterly became a fun place to just chat and play songs to each other. These life changes, as well as this period of a different relational pace, influenced the way the songs on “So Inspired, So Done In” came together. It was written in bedrooms, over the internet, and in a large shed in Shropshire (for a weekend writing get-together), rather than in the usual practice space.
Felvételek:
LP:
1. Infinite Nuggets 01:36
2. Fun is Always Brilliant 03:11
3. Employee 02:35
4. Springfield Library Haunting 01:48
5. Drumming on a Tree with FM 02:08
6. Potatoes in the Basement Bin 02:13
7. Fungal Free 2023 01:29
8. Green Stuff 02:52
9. Architecture Days 01:48
10. Munchies and a Pen 02:11
11. Guildford Awkward 01:19
12. No Pavement Story 02:11
13. Worst Jobs in History 02:55
14. Unfinished Rock ‘N’ Roll Tattoo 01:42
15. A Bit of Paper 03:30
16. So Inspired, So Done In 02:45
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