Swan Dive Pity Party is DOGDAD’s debut album, released yesterday. Dark and heartbreaking, it’s time to dive into this record. Review.
SWAN DIVE PITY PARTY – DOGDAD
Opening on a deep and round bass line, Hands on a Hardbody wears in its heart chaos, at first tamed and then completely unhinged in its outro. The vocals on Dewar’s Good Time are the previous track’s negative, at first raw and later softer. The energy coming from it is brutal yet comforting. Between post-punk and emo, this record isn’t set on only one genre. It moves and shifts like the emotions that flow through it.
The drums are intense on Know Me Better. With a bubbly guitar and that scream ‘I don’t care’, DOGDAD harmonizes his inner conflicts without muffling them. Hospice takes the shades of nostalgia, like a look in the rear mirror and a bitterness at the back of the throat. However, it feels like a break. The Orchard gets more violent, though. Its hectic rhythm gets my head spinning. The vocals are desperate and heartbreaking.
It’s because this previous track is so strong that Ouroboros is a true surprise. It’s the most pop-rock track of the record, still keeping some bright sharp shards in the vocals, though. Its shape is highly noticeable. It’s Swan Dive Pity Party that closes the record in a vertigo of explosive chaos. There is something distressed in these tracks. And that’s why it’s so gripping to me. It’s a cathartic album that DOGDAD signs here with Swan Dive Pity Party, and a great debut.
