British narrative songs in an alt/garage rock setting with a touch of seaside Gothic.

12 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, ROCK: Garage Rock

Show all album songs: Boy Meets Dog Songs


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"Ricketty, twangin' and punky, blues-splashed '50s rock 'n' roll" Time Out London (Oct 3 2007 issue).

The Hungry Dog Brand were formed in 2003 and released "The Red Scarf" EP in 2004, produced by Wreckless Eric.

"The Red Scarf" "...becomes incredibly moving and stands repeated play. It suggests there's much to look forward to from this fellow," said Bucketfull Of Brains magazine (issue 68).

Debut album "Boy Meets Dog" is a collaboration with American alt-blues maverick Preacher Boy. It features 12 songs in various genres from punk-pop to folk ballads via gothic trip-hop and stomping garage rock. The album is produced and arranged by Preacher Boy, who also plays guitar on a number of tracks.

Here's a review:

HUNGRY DOG BRAND
*****
Boy Meets Dog
(Starving Mongrel)
Flaming four years ago from the dull embers of The Aardvarks and Two-Bugs-And-A-Roach, this guitar-bass-keyboards-drums outfit of garage rock persuasion is the apparent toast of London's small but prestigious 12-Bar Club. It's creative pivot is Martin Dowsing, composer of all but one of the twelve selections here. As a lead vocalist, however, he doesn't stray far from a central two octaves. Yet it isn't necessary to do so because he functions admirably with an understated but committed enunciation that borders an area inhabited by Mark Astronaut, TV Smith and, producer of the group's Red Scarf EP debut, Wreckless Eric.
Combined with proficient ministering to overall outcome by the others, notably drummer Emyr Tomos, the effect is curiously compelling, even as Dowsing relies more often than not on little more than a repeated few notes to carry lyrics that might be weakened by stronger elaboration. Yet the melody of "You Don't Have To Be Stupid" crept up on me in a supermarket check-out queue - as the sentiments of acoustic finale "A Long Way From Here" did when hurtling along the M6 in the graveyard hours, hours from sleep. Finally, one of the saddest songs I've heard since The Len Bright Combo's "Someone Must Have Nailed Us Together" in 1986 is "Say Hello To My Idiot Son", an opus worth the entire price of the album.

The above review was written by Alan Clayson (www.alanclayson.com) and is intended for publication in Rock 'N' Reel magazine.