With a cover that made me think of first-person shooters from the past, I did not know what to expect because ... well ... It's +DOG+. The project where Steve Davis, owner of Love Earth Music, seems to be the key member, has been reviewed many times in Vital and this last year already several times by me. So I've made it a quest to search for what +DOG+ is all about because the information is scarce, and this time it's not too much more than that; this is a family music book. So yeah, this time +DOG+ is Steve, Lob, Edward, MacKenzie, Chuck, Ron and Jack, and all tracks are recorded live over two years all over the US, albeit with the epicentre in the New England area.
It doesn't say who was in which recording and which recording was done where because it would be fun to see if there was a connection there. For example, if there's the use of vocals or a particular specific sound, are the members from that session also in other sessions? Who knows, maybe this release will turn up on Discogs, and everything will be there. Or not, of course, and +DOG+ remains the illustrious noise collective it has been for 20+ years.
Titles on this double CDR are in sync with each other "Bearing The Unbearable", "Loving The Unlovable", "Breaking The Unbreakable", and then 'Seeing', 'Dreaming', 'Touching', 'Forgiving', 'Sharing' and 'Imagining', of which the last three are on the second CDR. Musicwise, it's what we can expect from live sessions in the noise territory: Crude, loud, in-your-face recordings. I think relentless is the word that maybe fits best. There are tracks which know a bit of restraint (like the 'Breaking', 'Touching' and 'Imagining' tracks), but take, for example, the 'Imagining'-track: This one is 30 minutes, and even if it has a bit of restraint soundwise, it's laced with feedback and creepy noises, and it's a whopping 30 minutes ... So even the quiet tracks are what noise should be, and that's relentless. My favourite is "Sharing The Unshareable", but it might be the throbbing droney character in the beginning or the build-up towards the emptiness in the end that trigger my dopamine levels.
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