EZRA FURMAN - Day Of The Dog (Repress) - LP - Vinyl

LP - Black Vinyl Repress.

“Please take the five stars not as a statement that this is the best record of 2013, but as a delighted endorsement of a genre classic. With his fifth record (3 with Harpoons, and 2 solo) Ezra Furman has made an album of classicist rock'n'roll that never feels like an exercise, but a living, breathing piece of self-expression. The foundations are obvious, but the simple touches that adorn them are what elevates Day of the Dog.

Been So Strange, for example, is the Velvet Underground's chugging R&B reincarnated, but with the delicious addition of a horn section. It leaves you wondering why Lou Reed never thought to do the same, so well does it work. Slacker/Adria is nervy, jittery powerpop until two minutes in, when the bottom drops out of the song and it turns into a doomy riff over which Furman appears to be telling us his nightmares: "I see white crosses burning across a dark landscape." He's seen his critics coming, too: the liner notes contain an index so you can check off the references. Clever, funny, sharp and tuneful – a great rock'n'roll record.”

- Michael Hann (The Guardian). 

Tracklist:

Side 1
1. I Wanna Destroy Myself (2:32)
2. Tell Em All To Go To Hell (2:11)
3. My Zero (3:56)
4. Day Of The Dog (3:24)
5. Walk On In Darkness (3:27)
6. Cold Hands (2:41)
7. Anything Can Happen (2:29)

Side 2
1. And Maybe God Is A Train (2:15)
2. Been So Strange (3:27)
3. The Mall (2:25)
4. At The Bottom Of The Ocean (3:22)
5. Slacker/Adria (5:11)
6. Cherry Lane (4:17)