Dog Chocolate
Announce album launch shows in London and Oxford, with Rattle and The Plan
Share “Infinite Nuggets” single
New album, ‘So Inspired, So Done In’ – Due 27th February via Upset The Rhythm
Dog Chocolate are returning with their fourth album, ‘So Inspired, So Done In’, on 27th February via Upset The Rhythm, and have announced album launch gigs in London and Oxford at the end of February, with support from Rattle and The Plan (dates below).
Now they also share new single “Infinite Nuggets”, a fizzing popping candy of a song. Andrew’s chorus of “Nuggets, nuggets, infinite nuggets, I didn’t make ‘em I found ‘em” would surely be a stadium anthem in an alternate universe.
Andrew says, “in retrospect the lyrics here and throughout a lot of the record relate to my recently diagnosed ADHD. Here specifically how intense ideas, big and small come out of nowhere, zoom through the brain then vanish. “Infinite Nuggets” is about getting used to the fact that the richest and purest ideas, are gonna pop into my conscious and disappear as they please, and a reminder that there’s a garden bursting with these nuggety fruits just beyond my conscious.”
The band add, “The video, by Smooth Futon, is a reflection of the overarching theme of the song. Immediate ideas came to mind. Drawings evolved, were scrapped or reformed throughout the process. An ever changing collection of characters and shapes (or nuggets) appear out of the ether or out of each other before disappearing into obscurity. Moments are lost and found, warped versions of previous ideas manifest and twist out of shape and out of mind again.”
Dog Chocolate has created this raucous release that perfectly captures the talents of each musician as they each explore their own experimental traits on the record. Intelligently, the instruments are captured with such perfection; the drum sound is contagious and keeps the rolling intensity high throughout. It’s a rapid-fire release that explores the unpredictable energy and the blazing tonalities. The vocal notes bring this vivid and adventurous form to the voyage, the low-end of the bass grips you, and the raw rhythms excel.
Live Dates
Friday 27th February: Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney, London*
Saturday 28th February: Truck Store, Oxford*
*w/ The Plan and Rattle
So Inspired, So DoneIn sees Dog Chocolate tackling subject matter as diverse as overheard conversations, healing fungal toenails, the Rogerian concept of the Actualising Tendency, bronze age living conditions, dreaming songs into being and human-plant relations. Work (and anti-work) is a recurring theme, as is artistic inspiration and burnout.
While many of the 16 songs barely make it past the 3-minute mark, each one is bursting with all the textures and colours of an office cupboard: full of old sweets, fluorescent markers, and multiple ways to fix paper together.
Dog Chocolate revel in the mundane and incidental, to explore bigger, existential questions. Recorded and mixed by POZI’s Toby Burroughs and mastered by Sofia Lopes, So Inspired, So Done In charts a long and confusing period in the band’s collective life, marked by major life changes, losses and shifts, colouring the band’s trademark frantic, daft and anxious energy with a contemplative glaze. Dog Chocolate continue to investigate their internal and external landscapes with playful curiosity, frustration, silliness and empathy.
So Inspired, So Done In Album Preorder:
https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
Tracklist:
1. Infinite Nuggets
2. Fun is Always Brilliant
3. Employee
4. Springfield Library Haunting
5. Drumming on a Tree with FM
6. Potatoes in the Basement Bin
7. Fungal Free 2023
8. Green Stuff
9. Architecture Days
10. Munchies and a Pen
11. Guildford Awkward
12. No Pavement Story
13. Worst Jobs in History
14. Unfinished Rock ‘N’ Roll Tattoo
15. A Bit of Paper
16. So Inspired, So Done In
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