Blog: The Rawking Refuses To Stop!

My Cokemachineglow colleagues and I have been marinating over Concentration , Halifax act Dog Day's latest album, for a few weeks now, and we've concluded the following: It's good! A nuanced pronouncement, I know, but Concentration does require a bit of focus to get a handle on. At once gritty and sing-song, the songs nod to Dinosaur Jr.'s guitar tones and Yo La Tengo's male-female interplay without referencing anyone too explicitly. There's a sense of rock 'n' roll mystery on even the most buoyant tracks, such as "You Won't See Me On Sunday," a song [...]

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