This could well be the best debut album of the year from this young band. The record is jammed packed with over 60 minutes of quality original songs. Dog is Dead have arrived!Harmonies spark the spirit of the Beach Boys, riffs reminiscent of The Strokes, Editors and The Shins, songwriting in tune with any of the current indie crop.
The band have earned their spurs on the gig circuit over the last couple of years, indeed we interviewed them at the Lexington in the summer of 2011, the past 12 months must have been a rollercoaster for them all.
The songwriting and musicianship is very solid on the album. The band are signed to Atlantic Records UK and have benefitted from that machine by way of publicity for the album but, rest assured this is publicity you can trust.
‘All Our Favorite Stories’ really does sound just that, what the band have experienced, discussed, lived with over the past couple of years. The band are not afraid to change styles either, the album starts with ‘Get Low’ a nice slow burner of a song, ‘Do The Right Thing’ is an open the curtains wide sunshine song, ‘Teenage Daughter’ has a ‘big sound’ feel with ‘Editors” like guitar and so on, ‘‘Glockenspiel Song’ adds a touch of Jazz and the album’s jewel crown ‘River Jordan’ is a pure widescreen delight!
So don’t hang around, buy this record (don’t download individual songs) as soon as you can or at least, get it on the Christmas list, much like the first Strokes record, this band could be enormous very soon.
Pete
10/11
