The Black Dog return on April 7 with Radio Scarecrow, the follow-up to 2005’s Silenced. The three-piece have been working in the new album for more than two years, constantly developing tracks to create a longplayer than really builds on Silenced. In fact, the trio revealed: “The beats are faster and the bass is much heavier – so much so that it was making us ill working with the low frequencies for hours on end. We could only do three hours at a time on some parts.”
Tracks such as Floods v3.9 and Beep are testament to this. With throbbing basslines strong enough to make an impact on the Richter scale, these tracks are best played out on a big sound system. Influenced heavily by their interest in magick, numbers stations and electronic voice phenomenon, the band have hidden examples of these within their work: “These transmissions and recordings – and people’s interpretations of them º had a strong influence on many of the final concepts and compositions, to the point where we’ve been embedding coded messages and curses deep inside the tracks…”
Radio Scarecrow is out on Soma on April 7. Visit www.dogsquad.co.uk, www.radioscarecrow.com and www.somarecords.com
