The Dog Indiana

With a sound built as if to contrast the beauty that surrounds them, The Dog Indiana blast their audience with a wall reverb, feedback, and distortion, creating the perfect foil to the natural serenity of Vancouver Island. The trio has spent the last four years building a dynamic repertoire, a sound of simmering doom that boils over and explodes into thrashing primordial chaos. Through a relentless slog of local shows, they have formed an encapsulating, seamless live performance, reflective of the dynamism within the songwriting. Burnt Ends is an exploration of the feelings of helplessness and isolation that shook so much of the world in the last few years. Channeling pent-up energy into explosive tracks such as "Loaf" and "Hydroxydramaqueen", while employing space and depth on slow burns like "Matchsticks". The Dog highlights the radical dichotomy between helpless frustration and anger, and the dulling banality of the seemingly Sisyphean routine of despair. Sonically building off 2020's Never EP. Burnt Ends continues the descent into a darker, richer and more serious tone for The Dog Indiana. Recorded with Jordan Koop at The Noise Floor during a week of unrelenting West Coast downpour, The Dog was allowed time and room for experimentation, employing synthesizer drones and piano, various percussion instruments and the odd bit of improvised rain stick to round out the sounds that had been fomenting in dirty garages and darkened basements in the previous years.