02/12/2025
Big day today, the new Dog Chocolate album, heavily trailed in person at our label showcase last week, has been officially announced!
After 7 strange years of relative silence, Dog Chocolate have now returned with ‘So Inspired, So Done In’. This fourth album is their most focused, cohesive and song-based yet. They still sound like a bin full of wasps, but now the bin has double-cream or a Viennetta at the bottom, nice! While many of the 16 songs on here barely make it past the 3-minute mark, each one is bursting with all the textures and colours you’d expect from the band.
Thematically, a lot of ground is covered, with songs tackling subject matter as diverse as overheard conversations, the Rogerian concept of the Actualising Tendency, bronze age living conditions, and human-plant relations. Work (and anti-work) is another recurring theme, as is artistic inspiration and burnout.
Listen now to Dog Chocolate’s first single ‘Employee’, a bouncy dissonant song that trades experiences of the mid-2020s job market.
Dog Chocolate revel in the mundane and incidental to explore bigger, existential questions with this record. They continue to investigate their internal and external landscapes with playful curiosity, frustration, silliness and empathy, but this time there’s a contemplative glaze.
'So Inspired, So Done In' is available to pre-order now on black bio-vinyl, with accompanying A3 poster and lyric booklet: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
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