DOG DATE - Child's Play
Howdy, here with your monthly punk essay. Err, bi-monthly... no, tri-monthly.
Quarterly?
I don't know. I just wanted to take this opportunity to propagate this particular band again -- Dog Date, from New Jersey. I first wrote about this project when its last LP, "Hellpod", released in October of 2019, back when I thought a lot harder and had about a hundred more braincells to show for it. Now that I've gone and reviewed these old writings of mine ( • DOG DATE - Hellpod ), I realize that every single one of these descriptors still seem to be in effect in Dog Date's latest LP, "Child's Play", and effecting with great, incalculable force. Dog Date has gone and done it again, and I... well, I guess I'll go ahead and preach the same gospel, too. This band is fucking great, and sorely overlooked. Don't let this album slip by you either.
Luckily enough for the unaware, I couldn't imagine a more perfect opportunity to get into Dog Date's corrosive, synapse-frying rock and roll than this, which is now being served to you on a *literal platter*. Yes, thanks to Maryland's Pop Wig Records (https://www.popwigrecords.com), Dog Date has finally ascended from the slums of self-released cassette tapes to the slightly-more-respectable echelons of polyvinyl chloride discs, much to the delight of record geeks everywhere. And I can't stress enough just how deserved this wax treatment is, a failure to emphasize this point will detract from the sheer spectacle this album provides: these songs are the works of a single person. Just one, Dylan Kennedy. While there is a live five-piece component to this project -- featuring that cool double-drummer line-up I described ( • DOG DATE LIVE SESSION 2021 :) ) -- nearly everything in "Child's Play" was written, recorded, and performed by Dylan alone. Considering just how weighty and explosive these tracks can be, encompassing an aural pestilence of searing guitar licks and animalistic drumbeats, unique riffs that insist on embedding themselves in the deepest, darkest wrinkles of your membrane, the intensity of which threatens to boil over its own lid at any given moment.... I'd say that's something, alright.
The styles of songwriting that you can expect from this album can be surmised by the cover art alone, with its playful, childlike scenery, sullied only by a shadowy castle that looms in the distance -- like every album before it, "Child's Play" is an outwardly vibrant, fun listening experience, scintillating with attention-grabbing hooks, head-wrenching grooves, and impassioned, densely-modulated vocals that howl from the rear-end of the mix, roaring with a hint of desperation -- a desperation that quickly dives headfirst into the waters of artful, psychedelic darkness as the songs march onwards with a near-progressive strut, the guitars screaming like a choir out of hell as the composition becomes steadily darkened by colorations of a menacing hue. The bass brutishly plodding behind a cacophony of red-hot solos, as calculated in intent as they are disorderly in tone, the rhythms relentless in their pursuit of tightly-wound fills and heavy-handed cymbal crashes. As far as garage punk is concerned, this album embodies the entire ethos that fuels it: the sugar rush, the sugar crash, and the sugar hangover. It's fast and it's alive, until it isn't -- at which point, it is guaranteed to pick itself back up again with yet another riff of a lifetime. You need to buy this record. Links are down below.
TRACK LIST:
Hell Pod - 0:00
Cry Baby - 2:18
High Beams - 5:24
Rope Burn - 7:17
Purple - 9:29
Psychic Clay - 11:19
I Don't Want To - 15:10
Planet Kyle - 18:37
After All - 22:02
Frog - 25:25
Toad - 26:56
Made Bed - 30:19
SUPPORT: http://popwig.limitedrun.com/products...
DOWNLOAD: https://dogdate.bandcamp.com/album/ch...
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