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| DOG FACED HERMANS: Don't you forget us #18
Eighteenth instalment in my forgotten/dismissed/underappreciated Post-Punk (and all of its subgenres) bands list series: A mercifully short discography (unlike certain other bands), but a doozie one. Another in the great messy noise-punk delinquency tradition of the late 80s and early 90s and The Ex's Scotch favourites. | | 8 |  | Dog Faced Hermans
Miss O'Grady/Bella Ciao
Since the band only really has 5 full-length albums, the list had to be saturated with 3 additional EPs with sometimes repeating material, hence these scarcely filled releases unfortunately had to be settled to the lowest levels of the list, in spite of their quality, merely for the insufficient amount of tracks on them, for all the full-length albums offer all of this and more. Still, Bella Ciao might be one of their best songs to date.
Go-to tracks: Bella Ciao | | 7 |  | Dog Faced Hermans
Unbend
Just a few songs that aren't on any of their other releases (other than Incineration). That's it. They're above Miss O'Grady for the quantity and below Too Much for the quality.
Go-to tracks: Cruelty, Incineration | | 6 |  | Dog Faced Hermans
Too Much for the Red Ticker
This two-track EP is a great example of progression and maturity in song-writing. Both songs turn into mesmerising and overwhelming, but also surprisingly beautiful pieces of noise punk. They twist and turn and bend and explode and build up their intensity to a point of utter catharsis. It is only for the fact that it is a mere two-tracker I cannot put it any higher, but do know that I want to.
Go-to tracks: Too Much For the Red Ticker, Time Bomb | | 5 |  | Dog Faced Hermans
Humans Fly
This is the band's debut album and one that, while a worthwhile listen, is hardly a perfect example of the band's sound. It is quite obvious from listening to it that they don't yet know how to utilise the noisiness and the mess of this style. It's rather a straightforward, clumsily produced noise punk (emphasis on noise), before the band learns how to shape and bend the sound to create something more than just a psychotic The Ex worship. Now, that is not to say that this influence and this sound they underutilise, they certainly do a damn good job here, but in comparison with their future work, it is just ever so slightly behind.
Go-to tracks: How Much Vegetation Have You Got?, Cactus, Incineration, Big Pot | | 4 |  | Dog Faced Hermans
Everyday Timebomb
Certainly showing growth in comparison to their debut album, Humans Fly, what with itsmore straightforward and clear song-writing, but that didn't stop them from spearheading some innovative and frantic tunes. It just became more focused and musically cohesive. The songs here progress, they rise up are devolve into diabolical mess, even if they nearly always start out quite oddly and screechingly, which makes you think they are still the same as on their debut, but that maturity becomes visible as the tunes go on.
Go-to tracks: Scottish Block, Binding System, John Henry, Frock, Live Action | | 3 |  | Dog Faced Hermans
Those Deep Buds
The only exception in the band's otherwise ever-maturing and improving catalogue, this album is just ever so slightly missing that Mental Blocks charm or Hum of Life atmosphere in order to rank higher. But make no doubt of its quality, for much like everything else these fellows do, this'll blow your socks off. A hodgepodge of brainmelting, dewinging, butchering, beguiling, bubbling, drifting, nicker sowing, doofy, zealously clawing, maniacal, daring, sacrilegious, deafening, blazing, zombifying, prehistoric, relinquishing, executing, sleeplessly back-handling, Mars-like space-y, frivolously frippery and verdantly sincerely aural, phantasmagoria by these diva-like animals. (did I forget anything?) Pure madness.
Go-to tracks: Blessed Are the Follies, Keep Your Laws/Off My Body, Lie and Swell, Les Femmes et Les Filles Vont Danser, Virginia Fur, Calley, Dream Forever | | 2 |  | Dog Faced Hermans
Mental Blocks For All Ages
As similarly frantic and seemingly disoriented to their debut as this record appears, upon revision you'll discover a much more distinctly defined order in chaos. The songs are intricately written and methodically executed, they only appear haywire from aside and due to their overwhelming instrumental layers. It is all cleverly devised and constructed, make no mistake of that.
Go-to tracks: Fortune, Suppressa, Ballad About Bhopal, The Running Man, From the Top of the Mountain | | 1 |  | Dog Faced Hermans
Hum of Life
If nothing else, Dog Faced Hermans are a perfect textbook example of a band that learns and progresses with each album. The previously crude and noisy progressive segments of their music now are written with much more momentum and atmosphere. They are as idiosyncratic and tumultuous as one could possibly hope, but giving off a vibe of some distant disguised beauty. There are no more unnecessarily softer moments the band had a tendency to throw in at one point or another in each of their previous works (and even the ones that somewhat resemble that quickly turn into overwhelming adrenaline-inducing rides). And all that with tracklist that is longer than ever. As mature as one could possibly get at this point of their career.
Go-to tracks: Jan 9, Viva, The Hook and the Wire, How We Connect, Wings, Hear the Dogs, Love Is the Heart of Everything | |
Papa Universe
08.16.18 | A different band was supposed to be featured this episode, but it turned out they have a new album coming out in September, so I'll wait for that... also I really don't like them... anymore... therefore this quick and short replacement.
Beginner's Guide:
Jan 9
Hear the Dogs
The Running Man
Big Pot
Bella Ciao
Fortune
Scottish Block
Frock
How We Connect
Live Action
Timebomb
Suppressa
From the Top of the Mountain
Keep Your Laws/Off My Body
Les Femmes et Les Filles Vont Danser | ExecutiveExecuterexe
08.16.18 | are you excited for my band's upcoming demo? | Papa Universe
08.16.18 | not anymore | ExecutiveExecuterexe
08.16.18 | not surprising | Papa Universe
08.16.18 | you did it to yourself | butcherboy
08.16.18 | love this band.. | zakalwe
08.16.18 | I’ll get stuck in. | butcherboy
08.16.18 | is there anything on the split they did with The Ex that isn't on their LP's? | bgillesp
08.16.18 | I'da got here eventually. I got no clue who this band is but good job yet again Papi | Papa Universe
08.16.18 | that split is pretty exclusively old material, really. I think those albumless two-to-three-track EPs are there too. | Papa Universe
08.16.18 | I blatantly hid my favourite users somewhere in the list, by the way. Nobody appreciates my art. | SandwichBubble
08.16.18 | Gotta check 4 now | butcherboy
08.16.18 | deep buds forever.. or you know, for now somewhat.. | Papa Universe
08.16.18 | such is the hum of life | butcherboy
08.16.18 | humans come, humans fly away | Papa Universe
08.16.18 | this place truly unites people from all backgrounds and cuts them off from the real world, mental blocks for all ages | bgillesp
08.17.18 | Nice description for 3 | Papa Universe
08.17.18 | could you "catch 'em all"? | neekafat
08.18.18 | how do you find these guys? | Papa Universe
08.18.18 | Memory, browsing and my extensive knowledge... and sometimes LinkedIn. | mryrtmrnfoxxxy
09.07.23 | 2 is cool af. i haven't heard the rest yet |
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