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The Reproduce EP – Coming July 2023

Posted on 12th June 2023 in Releases

Our third EP in support of The Grey Album is coming in July, titled “The Reproduce EP”. Featuring two brand new tracks “4PO” and “Star Dancer”, along with an extra rework of “Borstal Communications”, it will be available to stream and download on the 7th of July 2023.

“Here, we introduce The Black Dog’s latest EP, crafted right on the streets of Russell and Devonshire. Drawing inspiration from the explosive energy of The Human League and Heaven 17 during their break-up era, this release channels that same spirit of determination and resilience.

From the very first note, you can feel the intensity, as The Black Dog channel the creativity, passion and drive of these iconic bands. But the story doesn’t end there. This EP marks the third release in support of The Grey Album, expanding this powerful chapter in The Black Dog’s journey.

So come and experience this momentous occasion for yourself – the energy is electric, and the music will stay with you long after the last note has faded away.”

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The Grey Album – Out Now

Posted on 11th May 2023 in Releases

It’s arrived and shipping now on CD, limited edition cassette and a very special pressing on double GREY 180g 12″ vinyl, exclusive to DustStore.com and our Bandcamp. Of course, the downloads are also available and it’ll be hitting the regular streaming services too.

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The free downloads for our supporters at Patreon are now live, including the super-hi-res 24bit WAV and FLAC files. You can join now and access all of the downloads for the price of a decent beer each month:
https://www.patreon.com/theblackdogma

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tBd @ Levitation 23 – Whitby, May 2023

Posted on 28th April 2023 in Gigs

We’ll be visiting the coastal town of Whitby on the 19th of May for a special show at Levitation 23.

Tickets are available now:
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The Grey Album – 12th May 2023

Posted on 9th March 2023 in Releases

Our new album, The Grey Album, will land in May on CD, limited edition double vinyl (with special Grey vinyl only direct from us), a super special cassette, plus all of the usual download and streaming services. The previews and pre-orders are online now at DustStore and Bandcamp.

The Story
Sometimes, things “just happen”. For months, we’d been working away on various projects and then, without really thinking about it, The Black EP just happened. It seemingly appeared from nowhere.

We’d been talking about the old days; making music with friends and dodgy kit, renting small practice rooms and using makeshift recording studios. It was such a common thing back then, you could pick a dusty space in a half-derelict building for as little as £25 a month. In those days, the Cabs and Human League had studios with posh-sounding names, but in reality, they were the same old workspaces long abandoned by the industries they were built for. Nevertheless, the grand names made them sound magical.

Sheffield had thousands of these spaces, and some still exist today, but their abundance and low-cost made Sheffield a very active place. Someone was always doing something. They’d exploded onto the scene in a flurry of excitement before disappearing just as quickly.

There’s something about these little mesters (workshops) that we believe lives in the very consciousness of Sheffield. It’s one of the reasons we never really had big scenes like Manchester or Leeds. The Hacienda would’ve never been built here.

We don’t really do big gangs or have that kind of mentality. We tend to exist in little pockets, often leaving each other alone. It would be 30 years before any member of The Black Dog talked to Cabaret Voltaire. Sure, we’d stood outside their practice room as kids, trying to listen in, but never felt any reason to approach. Sheffield is like that.

Once we had the first two tracks of the Black EP, we set off to see Jon at Do It Theesen, where he manually cut the tracks to an extremely limited set of 7″ singles using a vinyl lathe. It just felt right to go back to the old ways; a small gang creating something special in workshops and sheds. There’s something very satisfying about it, a perfect circle, if you will.

We pushed further by adopting old practices, working with one synth per person and limiting the use of our computers. We only stopped short of putting everything on beer crates. It seems like madness these days, but there is raw creativity within these confines. Pretty much every band started this way. Depeche Mode travelled to the studio on the London Underground for their first appearance on Top Of The Pops, all lugging a synth each. That’s how we approached the creation of this album; stripped back, raw and minimal – it just felt so right.

And then there’s the competitive element that was influenced when the original Human League split and became Human League MK II and Heaven 17. Both continued to use the same studio to write what became the albums “Dare” and “Penthouse and Pavement”. There is something about that drive that is very Sheffield, just making stuff and hoping everything falls into place.

In Sheffield, we do things differently, because that’s how we are built.

The White EP – Arriving 7th April 2023

Posted on 8th March 2023 in Releases

The full digital release of the White EP is finally coming in April. You can pre-order it now from DustStore and Bandcamp, and it will be available from all of the big download and streaming services by the 7/4/23.

Our supporters at Patreon will be able to download this for free just before the official launch. You can get access to this and all of our releases at: https://www.patreon.com/theblackdogma.

Music For Airport Lounges – Coming In February

Posted on 3rd February 2023 in Releases

Going back through the archives from our Music For Real Airports period, we’ve selected a collection of unreleased tracks and demos to construct a new ambient mix.

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About
“We hate to think about how much time we’ve spent in Airport Lounges. We didn’t record on every single visit but we still ended up with over 200 hours of recordings in our archives – that’s nearly 8.5 days. These recordings became the backbone of the project, as we began to work them into tracks, while simultaneously sitting in airports. The circle was complete.

Airport lounges are a common source of frustration for all travellers; overcrowded, uncomfortable, and filled with a variety of unpleasant smells, not to mention the equally unpleasant people barking orders. Worse still, many airports have limited seating and amenities. During long wait times, this can become quite overwhelming.

Philosophically, the nightmare of airport lounges can be seen as a representation of the existential angst and anxiety of modern life, all compacted into one small area. It is a physical manifestation of our inability to escape the constraints of time and space, as well as our inability to control our own destiny. As a result, airport lounges can be seen as a negative reflection of the human condition, and a symbol of the lack of freedom we experience in our everyday lives.

This album of unreleased recordings documents an earlier time, when 3 weekends a month were spent in airports and this temporary home became our recording studio. A recent visit confirms that nothing has changed.”

Released 24th February 2023.

Music For Real Airports – Repress Shipping Now

Posted on 20th January 2023 in Releases

The 2023 pressing of Music For Real Airports from Dust Science is shipping now!

We’ve got a lovely triple-vinyl cut from Air Studios and a very special cassette, exclusively from DustStore and our Bandcamp page. Vinyl, CD and downloads will be available from all the usual culprits.

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https://www.duststore.com/pages/music-for-real-airports
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Music For Dead Airports – Out Now

Posted on 6th January 2023 in Releases

Our new EP, Music For Dead Airports, is available now from DustStore.com, Bandcamp and all the usual streaming and download services.

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As always, our supporters on Patreon can download this release right now. For the price of a nice beer each month, you can get this and loads more downloads too:
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Music For Dead Airports – Coming 6th January 2023

Posted on 20th December 2022 in Releases

To celebrate the re-issue of “Music For Real Airports” on Dust Science, we’ve created a brand new EP, this time focusing on local efforts to bring air travel to the locals around our hometown of Sheffield.

“The Black Dog present four tracks written in Sheffield airports, car parks and on the land where both once stood, channelling what should have been, instead of the feverish nightmares they became. Once again we find ourselves reflecting on the difference and why it has to be so.

Sheffield has a terrible history with airports, both attempts have now failed. Sheffield City Airport was first proposed in 1968, but it wouldn’t open until 1997. Even the low-cost flight revolution couldn’t save it, the business model was based on high-fare short-hop journeys. To make matters worse, many of the aircraft operated by the low-cost providers couldn’t actually land at the airport. The last flight left in 2002. The airport was later sold for a very controversial £1.

Doncaster Sheffield Airport, otherwise known as Robin Hood Airport, opened in 2005 and boasted a longer runway, suitable for much bigger aircraft. It managed to attract a few low-budget operators until Flybe and Wizz Air announced they’d be terminating all their flights, with the final one leaving on the 5th of November 2022.”

Released 6th of January 2023

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