7 track album
ostensibly Black Dough play pop music but it is a form of pop music being exploded across the galaxy, pop music being stretched in a million different directions, towards jazz, noise-rock, 70s prog, Bowie, and places between and betwixt. a sort of pop music for people who hate pop if pressed.
this kind of entre-deux music generally appeals to me because i. i think most genres are tired and used up and hollowed out and calcified and ii. hybridity is the only real authenticity that there is, no matter what anyone says, we have to join things together and mix them up to ensure survival.
this Gothenburg group are the brainchild of Miranda Raeder, whose voice bestrides this music and equips what could be genre-exercises with a sense of purpose and play, wrongfooting with some oblique note choices, and impressing with a measured power. not that the band are unimpressive at all. they are all very good second bananas.
people looking for obvious hooks and 3 minute marvels should look elsewhere, but those looking to marinade in a unique mood/mode might find a lot to love across these seven lightly-sprawling songs. (8)
