The Black Dog: Tune into Radio Scarecrow
UK electronica act The Black Dog have officially released their new album „Radio Scarecrow”. Already hotly debated in raving reviews in some of the predominant print publications and on the web, the album is the result of two years of laborious tweaking and fine-tuning in the studio. Partly, this delay can be attributed by the fact that The Black Dog have spent the last 24 months touring incessantly next to founding their own little label DS 93 – specialising in highly limited, beautiful slabs of luxurious 174 grams Vinyl. The most important reason why “Radio Scarecrow” has taken so long to be finished, though, consisted in the frequential extremitiies of production: “The beats are faster and the bass is much heavier”, The Black Dog explained, “so much so that it was making us ill working with the low frequencies for hours on end, we could only do 3 hours at a time on some parts". Released on Soma Records, “Radio Scarecrow” is already receiving play by acts like Laurent Garnier and Josh Wink.
Next to its musical strengths, the album is enriched by numerologic messages embedded into compositions and titles and driven by an interest in parascientific occurances such as Electronic Voice Phenomena. "These transmissions and recordings (and people's interpretations of them) 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", the trio noted.
To support “Radio Scarecrow”, The Black Dog have set up a special webpage for the album, which offers a stream of snippets as well as concert information.
Homepage: The Black Dog
Homepage: The Black Dog: Radio Scarecrow Microsite
Homepage: Soma Records
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