The Dog's Body and the frenetic crushed metal distortions and emotional diaspora of "Deer of Wisdom"

"God damn, you're killing the clutch / On Robitussin X-Wings tearing through my streets / The tracers from your high beams are burning in my brain / The echoes from the underworld, rolling down the drain..."

The frenetic crushed metal distortions and emotional diaspora of "Deer of Wisdom", by Cookeville Tennessee four piece "y'allternative rock" band The Dog's Body, feels like a pummeling pressure cooker blending of alt rock / indie rock / emo / Southern rock filers and more. The bloodletting is, well, bloody, the chorus exclaiming "It's the end of the world / It's creeping through the walls / Can you feel the blood / Pounding like a drum" as youth seems to be dying and the birth of adulthood like an existential threat, feels brain poundingly messy and uncertain. A thousand times worse that your first break up. I think, especially, today, when the world and it's so called leaders feel insane, being young feels, at times like a zero sum game. 

"Deer of wisdom, folded in the creek

The recoil from you rifle, knocked you off your feet
I was once a young man, killing on the road

Running from my shadow, sinking like a stone"

I totally love the fanning guitar leads ratcheting up the anxious tensions, the frenetic musicality from top to bottom and Blake Marlow's scorched earth vocal howl saturated in a dull pain. As I listen I thought of artists like Hard Girls, Joyce Manor, Fucked Up (or an amalgam of all three). 

 "Deer of Wisdom" is the title track of The Dog's Body's latest album that dropped on July 4th. 

LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):

[The title track (Deer of Wisdom) from the forthcoming Dog's Body LP jumps the gun at frenetic pace, echoing the newfound anxieties and uncertainties of adult hood. Existential horror and pensive nostalgia abound as the tune simmers before boiling in its final act. To create the grounded and gritty vibe of the single and new record, the enlisted decorated engineer at the Bomb Shelter in Nashville, TN (Alabama Shakes, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Margo Price) to commit the sounds to two-inch tape. "Deer of Wisdom" is a white knuckled burner; eyes darting back and forth to the rearview mirror.]

-Robb Donker Curtius

 

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3o3zthkKVHtXzH4NcwMu3O

https://thedogsbody.bandcamp.com/album/salt-pile

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555631473004


The Dog’s Body is a four-piece “Y’allternative Rock” band hailing from the small college town of Cookeville, Tennessee. The unassuming Upper Cumberland city serves as an ideal incubator for experimental and outsider acts skirting the shadow of music city. The band blends a unique mix of Southern, Alternative, and Indie Rock to craft a unique sound that echoes the duality of the modern South.

The Dog's Body, progressive, alt rock, indie rock, emo, post grunge, "y'allternative rock", latest album "Deer of Wisdom", frontman Blake Marlow, abandon of youth, angst, gritty new record, Bomb Shelter / Nashville TN,