Philly favorites Dr. Dog immediately introduced a brand new album, their first in six years, and with it comes a jaunty new track, “Talk Is Cheap.”
The band teased their return final month with “Still Can’t Believe,” a mellow and reflective hearth quantity led by singer-guitarist and co-songwriter Scott McMicken; on the brand new track, bassist Toby Leaman takes heart stage and the heartbeat is faster, the harmonies stacked, and the refrain large, with brilliant staccato keys (a Dr. Dog signature) and gnarly shredding from guitarist Frank McElroy.
In a press launch concerning the document and the discharge, Leaman says the track is “about my wife and how much I rely on her, how she’s always there for me. It’s funny because I’m not a big love-song guy, but everything I wrote on this album is for her.”
Dr. Dog the album is the band’s eleventh studio full-length, and comes out on July nineteenth; the day after they headline the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater with Fruit Bats on July 18th and slightly below per week after their big hometown headlining show at The Mann Center on July 13th with Kevin Morby and The Teeth. The document is the band’s first since 2018’s pensive Critical Equationand their third for We Buy Gold Records. The document will be pre-ordered and pre-saved hereand you’ll take a look at the monitor checklist and album artwork down beneath.
McMicken says in a press launch that within the making of the brand new document, “there was an emphasis on creating something very soulful and live-feeling, which meant starting with all of us looking each other in the eye and connecting to the music. The idea was, ‘Let’s be loose, let’s not overthink.’ The more you can let go of that fear of being imperfect, the more you open yourself up to deeper expression.”
In addition to this document, McMicken simply quietly dropped a new solo album called When It’s Happening — his second with The Ever-Expanding — final Friday, April nineteenth. Drummer Eric Slick’s latest solo outing, New Age Rageis out this Friday, and he headlines Johnny Brenda’s on Saturday night time with Leaman performing a gap set. Leaman’s debut solo EP, Military Applicationsgot here out in 2022. Information on that present (and the Mann Center present) will be discovered at WXPN’s Concert Calendar.
Dr. Dog the album
Dr. Dog tracklist
1. Authority
2. Lost Ones
3. Fat Dog
4. Talk Is Cheap
5. What a Night’ll Do
6. Tell Your Friends
7. Still Can’t Believe
8. Fine White Lies
9. White Dove
10. Handyman
11. Love Struck
