Slaughter Beach, Dog’s newest single has a perfect twang to it, a sort of open-road, yeehaw sadness. No wonder: Vocalist Jake Ewald nods to legendary folkster Townes Van Zandt in the tune’s first verse. It’s perfect sad-man music, resigned and calm with a razor’s edge of melancholia. It’s grounded and wishful, full of whispy soprano harmonies and whiskey-drenched guitar riffs. An old feeling pervades it, as though it’s a cover of a song from a long, long time ago.
The group’s new LP, “Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling” is out this autumn, and it promises to hold more of the alt-rock bent that Slaughter Beach, Dog has turned towards so far this summer.
the album ‘Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling’ out September 22nd on Lame-O Records.
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