With every Dr. Dog record I joke about how they need to release a shitty song just to get it out of their system. Any track on Be the Void could be your favorite (even here at State of Mind, Adam King picked "Do the Trick"). I think deep down mine might be "That Old Black Hole" -- the lyrics seem simple, yet in their jumbled twists and turns there's subtle profundity: "I don't make rules for a living/I don't do tricks for a dime/I was born on a good day/deaf, dumb and blind/who am I to tell the truth?/I don't even know what it is." And it culminates in perfect pop song fashion that has you singing along as loud as you can. But, I didn't listen to any song more in the past year than "How Long Must I Wait," because it might just be the best groove they've ever written. As it builds, I melt into it. Every time.
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