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THE
CRITICS HAVE SPOKEN!
LOU DOG PROVES BARK IS AS BIG AS
HIS BITE WITH 61 OLD DEPOT
�The
power of his songs and his talent as an arranger will make you a believer.�
� SoundStage
PHILADELPHIA -- From the
New York Press to All Music Guide and beyond, the media buzz is
swelling around LOU DOG�s latest release 61 OLD DEPOT, a
gritty, street-wise rock album that shows a musical maturity beyond the DOG�s
years.
In a 5-STAR review, Pulse
Weekly called 61 OLD DEPOT �a truly poetic musical masterpiece,�
while SoundStage declared: �A number of punk-influenced discs have been
released to great acclaim in the last year, but few show the range or ability
exhibited in 61 OLD DEPOT.� That�s but a small sample of the praise LOU
DOG has received on this no-frills, gritty yet �very melodic� (New
York Press) album that�s making
its mark on the indie scene. As All Music Guide confirmed, �61 OLD
DEPOT demonstrates that LOU DOG is deserving of wider recognition.�
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WHAT THEY"RE SAYING
ABOUT LOU DOG
�His
writing and playing -- he performs all the music himself -- shines
brilliantly. ... His style has all of the fuzzy warmth of Thurston
Moore�s work (Sonic Youth), coupled with the extraordinary technique of
Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tango). ... Lou Dog�s lyrics are intelligent, witty
and stream of consciousness. ... charming and refreshing.� - Splendid
E-Zine
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Who is Lou Dog?
Philadelphia-based
garage rocker LOU DOG takes every long time musical influence
he's got to create his unique and dirty rock songs. From Led Zeppelin,
The Replacements and Radiohead to The Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan,
LOU DOG took everything he learned from the masters to create and record
his own vision. The LouDog Theory: three or four chords is pretty much all you need. He picked up the guitar in high
school, started writing songs in college, and
it was over.
After
honing his skills playing guitar in several different bands, LOU DOG decided to take matters into his own hands and take
full advantage of all the musical equipment
made available to him. He quickly wrote a lot of material, played
all the instruments on the recordings and released a cassette tape of songs in 1994 called LOU DOG and The One Watt Sex
Machine. After holing up for a few more
years, LOU DOG enlisted Philadelphia-based rock
producer Bogdan Hernik (Astrud Gilberto) to help create the critically acclaimed 2002 release Slowly Drifting. Also
well-received at college radio, the "magnifique-ly
sneerie" (Philadelphia City Paper) debut album was produced,
engineered and mixed at world-famous Indre Recording Studios by Hernik,
who returns in the same capacity on LOU DOG's new EP, HIGH SPEED SECRETS.
"Bogdan
understands my music and knows how to get the sounds," says LOU DOG. Over the summer of 2002, Hernik and LOU DOG moved
their recording studio gear (Shoe Shine
Studios) into a rented house near the beach in The Hamptons on eastern
Long Island. They recorded 18 more songs there -- five of which became
HIGH SPEED SECRETS. Mastered by Bob Ludwig of Led Zeppelin renown, the new EP is just a small taste of the full-length
release due in summer 2003.
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