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Track List
01) Listening In
02) Go Out Fighting
03) Buzzing in the Light
04) Virginia Please
05) Critical Equation
06) True Love
07) Heart Killer
08) Night
09) Under the Wheels
10) Coming Out of the Darkness
01) Listening In
02) Go Out Fighting
03) Buzzing in the Light
04) Virginia Please
05) Critical Equation
06) True Love
07) Heart Killer
08) Night
09) Under the Wheels
10) Coming Out of the Darkness
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"Critical Equation" is the eleventh album by psychedelic rock band Dr. Dog. It was released on April 27, 2018 on the Thirty Tigers label. The album was produced by Gus Seyffert.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Critical Equation pops and darts with the energy of a brand new band. Producer Gus Seyffert deserves some of the catalytic credit, but his main job seems to have been focusing Dr. Dog on their strengths. On the creative side, songwriters Scott McMicken and Toby Leaman are responsible for a strong set of originals that occasionally strive for philosophical profundity but are at their best when they’re at their loosest.
The album is bookended by a pair of songs (“Listening In” and “Coming Out Of The Darkness”) whose fussy atmospherics keep them at arm’s length. By contrast, when the band just lets it roll on one of McMicken’s and Leaman’s sturdy melodies, the results are irresistible. “True Love” is a ridiculously catchy rockabilly stomp, while “Heart Killer” romps along like a lost Cheap Trick classic. Dr. Dog also possesses a knack for just the right curve-ball touch on their songs, such as when the dreamy acoustic track “Night” is adorned by UFO synths.
The standout is “Under The Wheels,” which settles into a pop-blues groove of which Steve Miller would be proud. On that track, McMicken sings, “’Cause I tried so hard to make sense of it all/ And I’ll be damned if I do it again.” When Critical Equation isn’t trying too hard to solve those mysteries lyrically or complicate matters musically, it’s prime Dr. Dog. And that’s more than enough.
Reviewed by Jim Beviglia for americansongwriter.com.
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"Critical Equation" is the eleventh album by psychedelic rock band Dr. Dog. It was released on April 27, 2018 on the Thirty Tigers label. The album was produced by Gus Seyffert.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
User Album Review
Critical Equation pops and darts with the energy of a brand new band. Producer Gus Seyffert deserves some of the catalytic credit, but his main job seems to have been focusing Dr. Dog on their strengths. On the creative side, songwriters Scott McMicken and Toby Leaman are responsible for a strong set of originals that occasionally strive for philosophical profundity but are at their best when they’re at their loosest.
The album is bookended by a pair of songs (“Listening In” and “Coming Out Of The Darkness”) whose fussy atmospherics keep them at arm’s length. By contrast, when the band just lets it roll on one of McMicken’s and Leaman’s sturdy melodies, the results are irresistible. “True Love” is a ridiculously catchy rockabilly stomp, while “Heart Killer” romps along like a lost Cheap Trick classic. Dr. Dog also possesses a knack for just the right curve-ball touch on their songs, such as when the dreamy acoustic track “Night” is adorned by UFO synths.
The standout is “Under The Wheels,” which settles into a pop-blues groove of which Steve Miller would be proud. On that track, McMicken sings, “’Cause I tried so hard to make sense of it all/ And I’ll be damned if I do it again.” When Critical Equation isn’t trying too hard to solve those mysteries lyrically or complicate matters musically, it’s prime Dr. Dog. And that’s more than enough.
Reviewed by Jim Beviglia for americansongwriter.com.
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