Your Dog Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/your-dog/ New and independent music Fri, 02 Dec 2016 19:41:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Your Dog Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/your-dog/ 32 32 88787050 November 2016 Roundup https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2016/12/02/november-2016-roundup/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 19:41:24 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=11155 So November 2016 is officially in the past, which is hardly the biggest loss in the world, although the fact December 2016 is picking up where it left off isn’t providing much comfort. Still, even in these turbulent times, great music perseveres. Here’s a playlist featuring all the artists we covered last month: Tracklisting: 1. Hold That Thought – Joyride! 2. Betsy’s Back – Bloody Death Skull 3. Cold Spell – Lunar Quiet 4. Go To Sleep – Skinny Blonde 5. Limbaud […]

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]]> So November 2016 is officially in the past, which is hardly the biggest loss in the world, although the fact December 2016 is picking up where it left off isn’t providing much comfort. Still, even in these turbulent times, great music perseveres. Here’s a playlist featuring all the artists we covered last month:

Tracklisting:

1. Hold That Thought – Joyride!
2. Betsy’s Back – Bloody Death Skull
3. Cold Spell – Lunar Quiet
4. Go To Sleep – Skinny Blonde
5. Limbaud – American Enthusiasm
6. Saurkraut – Your Dog
7. Ache – Dæva
8. Bound By Blood – Hollow Twin
9. Florida’s Warm – Day Joy
10. The Dark Side of the Holy Ghost – Young Elk
11. The Park Behind Walmart  – Boy Scouts
12. Fear & Force – Vagabon
13. Stanton Park – Luke De-Sciscio
14. uuu – Field Medic
15. Meeting Points at 2AM – dné
16. The Rain Thief – Honey Stretton
17. The Stranger – Tyler Butler
18. Nervousness Fangs – Will Johnson
19. Constellation – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
20. The Dark Streets of Newark – Monarch Mtn
21. Violet – Roddy Hart & the Lonesome Fire
22. Work – naps
23. Passage of Old – Seabuckthorn
24. We’re Stuck With The Beauty – Winter Villains
25. Why They Call You Blue – Jordan Buchell

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]]> 11155 Song Premiere: Your Dog – Saurkraut https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2016/11/10/song-premiere-dog-sauerkraut/ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:30:49 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=11033 In the closing pages of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, the youngest son Wilder takes his plastic tricycle to a busy expressway and commences to peddle across the stream of traffic. Ignoring the calls of concerned adults, the toddler defies death in a Frogger-like manner right across to the median, then slowly walks across the grass, gets back in the saddle, and rides across the endless flow of vehicles in the opposite direction. The boy has no idea he is going […]

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]]> In the closing pages of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, the youngest son Wilder takes his plastic tricycle to a busy expressway and commences to peddle across the stream of traffic. Ignoring the calls of concerned adults, the toddler defies death in a Frogger-like manner right across to the median, then slowly walks across the grass, gets back in the saddle, and rides across the endless flow of vehicles in the opposite direction. The boy has no idea he is going against the unstoppable order of the traffic, no concept of death.  The audience watch on, awe-struck, and when he finally comes to a stop a passer-by picks him up like some holy icon, “holding him aloft for the clamouring elders to see”.

‘Saurkraut’, the sophomore single from Talking to Bob, the new EP from Bronx-based Your Dog, might not be quite as dramatic, though holds the same desire to retreat into the vaguely supernatural ignorance and innocence that childhood represents. The Bronx-based band, featuring Kate FitzSimons, Julius Bowditch and Ian Bond (formerly of Margo), combine earnest vocals and upbeat acoustic guitar with harsh percussion and swamping distortion to highlight the juxtaposition between past and present, painting young adult angst as a seismic force caused by friction between the giant plates of childhood and maturity.

“Cause it’s been months since I’ve felt something short of nothing.
I just want something.
Actually, nothing is fine.

In the middle of a one lane highway
Sitting criss cross, opposite to you.
Playing jax, got a baseball bat.
How about that?”

The result is a cross between indie rock bands such as Cold War Kids and the sincere bedroom pop that has risen out of Bandcamp, oscillating between cynicism and sentimentality and never quite settling on either. The song delineates the Millennial condition of frustration, anger and doubt with no obvious source or target (“I don’t really know what I oppose, but I’m starting to think that it blows”), and the huge, limiting pressure to look/sound/be a certain way in a world dominated by online images. There is no answer here, childhood remains firmly in the past, but there is value in the question and comfort in hearing a shared complaint. How do we find peace and connection in this world? How do we love and be loved?

“Searching for the ways that I want to seem to those who don’t know me.
I just want to feel alright.”

Talking To Bob is set for release on the 2nd December via Invertebrate Music and you can pre-order it now from the Your Dog Bandcamp page. If you are in or around New York at the end of November, there’s a launch party at Shea Stadium on the 28th, with support from Rhea, Ghost King and Rita Fishbone. your dog release show

Photo by Hayden Sitomer, Album art + tour poster by Aiyana Jaffe  

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