The Black Dog
Radio Scarecrow
Dust Science Limited
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2023
2x12” (red)
29.99
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Edition of 300 copies
CD
9.99/13.99
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Incl. VAT plus shipping / Orders from outside the EU are exempt from VAT
Tracklist
1Transmission Start
2Train By The Autobahn (part 1)
3Train By The Autobahn (part 2)
4Riphead V9
5UV Sine
6Short Wave Lies
7Siiiipher
8Digital Poacher
9Coda
10Set To Receive
11EVP Echoes
12Floods V3 9
13Beep
14Witches Ov
15Dials & Dialers 1
16Ghost Vexations
17Dials & Dialers 2

The Black Dog's highly regarded album, »Radio Scarecrow«, is now remastered and re-issued on Dust Science, 15 years after its original release on Soma Records.

Two years of constant development culminated in a masterpiece that flows delightfully and hits hard. Marking a true progression from the band's previous album, the trio are keen to note:

»The beats are faster and the bass is much heavier - so much so, that it was making us ill, working with the low frequencies for hours on end. We could only do 3 hours at a time on some parts.«

»Radio Scarecrow« unfolds gracefully, barely skipping a beat between tracks. The act have created an album that demands to be listened to in its entirety. With elements blending between tracks (the same kick drum being used to very different means in Short Wave Lies and Siiiipher for example) and with constant references to conspiracy theories and the supernatural, The Black Dog present more than a collection of tracks. Influenced heavily by their interest in Magick, Numbers Stations and Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP), the act have hidden examples of these within their work.

»These transmissions and recordings (and people's interpretations of them) had a strong influence on many of the final concepts and compositions, to the point where we've been embedding coded messages and curses deep inside the tracks.«