I first came across Dogs Die in Hot Cars when they played at my local Student Union with current buzz band, the Zutons. Unusually for a Thursday night there, you couldn’t move for the crowd that attended, but of the two bands on show, it was the imaginatively titled DDIHC that caught my imagination in an eye-catching set. Their own particular brand of catchy pop tinged tracks was a delight and I left the Delph a happy man that night. But what of the CD releases…?
Well the actual single on show is very tight and filled with funk melodies. Those who are familiar with the band know that they have their own particular take on the music they record and don’t particularly stick to any one type, which the man expects you to. ‘Godhopping’ is a perfect example of this as the piano that runs throughout the track complements those previously mentioned riffs well and is a strong, strong single. With such a confident track strutting its shit all over the CD it would be easy for the b-side to get lost, but ‘Who shot the baby’ holds its own just as confidently with yet more swaggering melodies and enigmatic vocals dominating on an effort which comes from a band which many may overlook.
NME are gonna hype them, they are gonna become rather large, but you shouldn’t really hold that against them. They are a band that sounds familiar, yet have a distinctly different sound to what the public have become accustom to. Which can only play in their favour.
Jay