{"id":8672,"date":"2014-03-18T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2014-03-18T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T18:23:09","slug":"dog-day-fade-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/03\/18\/dog-day-fade-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Day \u2013 Fade Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A lot of the songs on Fade Out<\/em>, the fourth full-length from Halifax\u2019s Dog Day, sound similar, which sometimes makes the album feel like one long song. While this can sometimes be a bummer, most of these songs sound really good, so it\u2019s not. The record feels a lot like its album cover looks, which is dark, deep, and ominous. If Sonic Youth only wrote poppy songs, usually under four minutes long, it might sound a lot like this (interestingly enough, the principal members of the band, Nancy Urich and Seth Smith, are married, which is also something that Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore once were). The album is full of heavy hooks and classic rock riffs, which sound badass on tracks like the relentlessly misanthropic \u201cAlone With You.\u201d It drifts into cute-but-sad territory with the lighter \u201cDirtbag,\u201d in which Smith declares, \u201cI hope that you\u2019ll still be around when I become a better person.\u201d There are (maybe?) some moments of levity, though, such as the hard-rocking driver \u201cSandwich,\u201d where the only line Urich calls out is \u201call of my friends are in sandwiches\/who am I eating this time?\u201d Dog Day pumps a few lifetimes of emotional crisis into each one of these short tunes, which can be a bit exhausting at times. But it\u2019s also comforting and powerful, somehow. The biggest payoff, and the best song of the record, is the closer, \u201cBefore Us.\u201d Over sparse drums and acoustic guitar, Smith sings \u201cas we lay here to rot, it\u2019s not over yet.\u201d On a record so full of sadness, the triumphant light at the end of the tunnel becomes so much more moving than you ever could\u2019ve imagined. It stands above all the tragedy that came before it and pushes forward, with an absurd but necessary amount of hope. (fundog, dogdaymusic.com<\/a>) Matt Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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