The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow (Remastered) [2LP]

dust science

£35.24

Format: 2LP
Catalogue No.: DUSTV117
Barcode: 4250101459085
Release Date: 01 Dec 2023
Genre: Electronic/Techno

*The Black Dog's highly regarded album, Radio Scarecrow, is now remastered and re-issued on Dust Science, 15 years after its original release on Soma Records.

Two years of constant development culminated in a masterpiece that flows delightfully and hits hard. Marking a true progression from the band's previous album, Silenced, the trio are keen to note:

"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 3 hours at a time on some parts."

Tracks like Floods v3.9 and Beep are a testament to this. With throbbing basslines strong enough to make an impact on the Richter scale, these tracks are best played out on big sound systems.

Radio Scarecrow unfolds gracefully, barely skipping a beat between tracks. The act have created an album that demands to be listened to in its entirety. With elements blending between tracks (the same kick drum being used to very different means in Short Wave Lies and Siiiipher for example) and with constant references to conspiracy theories and the supernatural, The Black Dog present more than a collection of tracks. Influenced heavily by their interest in Magick, Numbers Stations and Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP), the act have hidden examples of these within their work.

"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".

VINYL TRACKLIST A1 Transmission Start 00:02:53 A2 Train By The Autobahn (Part 1) 00:05:03 A3 Train By The Autobahn (Part 2) 00:06:39 A4 Riphead v9 00:05:21 B1 UV Sine 00:07:43 B2 ...Short Wave Lies 00:05:01 B3 Siiiipher 00:03:41 B4 Digital Poacher 00:02:47 C1 Coda 00:02:14 C2 Set To Receive 00:03:5 C3 EVP Echoes 00:04:32 C4 Floods v3.9 00:05:54 D1 Beep 00:03:37 D2 Witches Ov 00:03:47 D3 Dials & Dialers 00:01:07 D4 Ghost Vexations 00:03:15 D5 Dials & Dialers 2 00:01:34