DR. DOG - New Album + New Video + London Show


New Album - The Psychedelic Swamp - April 15th (Anti-) // New Video - ‘Bring My Baby Back’ // London Show - Oslo, E8 - April 25th

It’s taken 15 years… but Dr. Dog have finally reworked their cassette-only debut into a real studio album. The Psychedelic Swamp is a collection of their earliest psych-pop gems plus new song and first single, Bring My Baby Back, of which, Toby Leaman the band’s bassist and co-lead singer says: ‘This song is filled with things that nobody knew what to do with but just didn’t have the heart to throw away. It’s like climbing out from the bottom of a junk drawer three stories deep, a veritable ascent into maelstrom’
The Psychedelic Swamp was recorded with original members of the Dr. Dog collective at their Mt. Slippery studio in Philadelphia and will be released in the UK on April 15th 2016 on Anti- Records (a diverse and resolutely artist-friendly imprint of Epitaph Records and home to Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Neko Case, Mavis Staples and more…)

Dr. Dog have made a brand new video for the first single from the album. “Bring My Baby Back” . The track is from The Psychedelic Swamp, an album inspired by a mysterious correspondence the group received from an enigmatic figure name Phrases who hails from the aforementioned Psychedelic Swamp. The message simply asked the band to “record a great pop album” which they felt compelled to do.

Watch “Bring My Baby Back” video here: https://youtu.be/isma26BDHFQ
 
The video for “Bring My Baby Back” is an intriguing work which might fall under the relatively obscure cinematic genre of “hallucinatory film noir.” It appears to very loosely reference the Raymond Chandler classic “Farewell My Lovely” if that story had unfolded in a parallel universe.
As the band’s Toby Leaman explains, “I was a little nervous working with Zach (Miller) for the first time because he's so good in those Pixar movies. But I just did the magic trick of looking him right in the eyes and screaming ‘Action!’ And I realize now, after re-watching some of my earlier classics, that my entire oeuvre has been merely a prelude to this, my personal masterpiece. Also, I couldn't have picked a songwriter I'm more personally attached to.  What a ride. With love, T. L.”

The band are currently on the road, taking their high-energy live show around the USA before shows in Europe, the last date of the tour will be in London at Oslo, E8 on April 25th

January 20, 2016 10:45am ET by Triad Publicity   Comments (0)

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