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Track Listings
| 1. Get Low |
| 2. Do The Right Thing |
| 3. Teenage Daughter |
| 4. Talk Through The Night |
| 5. Two Devils |
| 6. Hands Down |
| 7. Glockenspiel Song |
| 8. Heal It |
| 9. River Jordan |
| 10. Any Movement |
| 11. Young |
| 12. The Well |
| 13. Ricochet |
| 14. Burial Ground |
| 15. Talent Show |
| 16. All Our Favourite Outtakes |
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Latest to step into this crowded marketplace are Nottingham youngsters Dog Is Dead. The ambitious five-piece’s debut, All Our Favourite Stories, is one that Atlantic must be hoping will do even a fraction of the first-week trade that the Mumfords’ second album, Babel, managed.
Whether they ultimately catch on or not may depend largely on the public’s appetite for more of the same. While this is a confident and at times sharply written debut, there’s little to suggest that Dog Is Dead bring anything new to the table.
Rather, tracks like Teenage Daughter and the big, look-at-me harmonising of Hands Down offer hook-heavy, clinically executed takes on Win Butler’s songwriting style, with sprinkled nods to spiritual heirs like The Maccabees and Bombay Bicycle Club.
The problem is that the band seems altogether too comfortable working within this already well-worn idiom. Without the gravitas of some of their peers, the results can feel like too transparent a gesture towards festival main stages.
As such, recent single Talk Through The Night’s polite suburban angst is nice enough to secure even Ned Flanders’ approval, while Two Devils makes us wonder when teens started coming over so confoundedly wistful in song. It sounds like Cat Stevens sitting us on his lap to explain a few things about how the world works.
But Get Low and Any Movement are two of their best and least-forced sounding recordings. The former revels in a ghostly sense of space, and the latter has a stately, Simple Minds-ish sweep that suggests a maturity not generally audible elsewhere. There are nice production touches throughout, too.
Maybe this record will make Dog Is Dead stars, but it’s unlikely to make them a better band. Want the advice of an old curmudgeon? Cool your heels, lads: you might end up making something more interesting.
--Chris Roberts
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Customer Reviews
`Do The Right Thing' is a happy, sunny track, much like most of this album, which contains a strong jazz inspired bass line and a memorable hook in the chorus making it definite single material. All Our Favourite Stories is full of woah's and `ooooh's making it perfect for a crowd to sing-along with, `Two Devils' is a perfect example of this as it's packed with anthemic `ooh's which make it catchy as hell.
Dog Is Dead have created an album that excites the listener as it switches from soft acoustics to loud, almost choral, three part harmonies as heard in the chorus of `Hands Down'. One thing that can be said about All Our Favourite Stories is that it's fresh, the band are passionate about their music as they've conceived a masterpiece that sounds nothing like anything or anyone else.
`Glockenspiel Song' was the first song ever released by Dog Is Dead, firstly under their own label two years ago in 2010 and then with Atlantic Records earlier this year. This song is possibly the most interesting on the album, led by a saxophone played by bassist Lawrence Cole it will be stuck in heads for days. Lyrics boast "We are a mess, we are failures and we love it" showing that Dog Is Dead are honest and real people and provide a powerful connection.
As debut albums go, All Our Favourite Stories is right up there; a diverse, attention grabbing mix of indie, folk and pop all merged into one with just a hint of jazz. Dog Is Dead have succeeded in creating a fantastic album that's bound to suit almost anyone.
I was impressed by their EP so I bought the deluxe version of their album to get the extra tracks and it is... Read more
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