Stray Dog Cafe - 'The Experiment Requires You To Continue'
0 Comments Published by Trev Lostmusic on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 22:19.
I first wrote about Stray Dog Cafe - here - back in September when I picked up on their single 'Maxamillion'. That came out on Ubik Records, as does this, the bands debut LP - 'The Experiment Requires You To Continue'. The label is run as a collective out of Manchester and has the aim of bringing attention to exciting, experimental, fun, passionate and generally loud music. Stray Dog Cafe definitely meet some of these criteria - although I'd argue it's hard to be an 'experimental' guitar band in 2008. Although this record does manage to sound fresh and invigorating to these ears.The LP has hard and fast rhythms that are often coupled with crunchy guitars but the band also lend their songs a slower slant - 'Gridlock Gridlock' is one of those songs and a lot of the songs here come with almost spoken word verses - before guitars and singing return.
The band list influences like The Fall, The Country Teasers and McClusky to name three, and I can certainly hear some of this abrasive guitar sound in the noise that this three piece make. But Stray Dog Cafe aren't a band that sound like anyone of their influences - there is more than enough Stray Dog Cafe here to make this LP a fine debut in it's own right. I, for one, want to hear more bands taking this harder edge to their guitars. Highly recommended.
The CD can be bought from the Ubik Myspace for £7,
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