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Following the release of BLACKENED AIR and RUN TO RUIN, the steadily growing cult success of contemporary singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia led Touch and Go Records to reissue her first album, DOGS. Originally released on a tiny label in 1999, DOGS contains, in embryonic form, all the elements of Nastasia's better known later albums.
Over the course of 15 brief songs (only the tortured "Nobody Knew Her" breaks four minutes), Nastasia spins a litany of oddly titled but affecting lyrics about romance and darkness. Steve Albini's bare-bones production keeps the focus entirely on Nastasia's wounded but unflagging vocals, with the more ornate backing of her later albums largely absent.
Nina Nastasia's first outing is a captivating, melancholic affair of precision and emotional clamor and stands as a fantastic sibling to her essential sophomore album, The Blackened Air. Dogs has a calming atmosphere, occasionally flirting with dissonance, and stands as a remarkable work of minimal building by repetition to support Nastasia's pitch-perfect voice. It is a rare group who can pull off such a fluid shift from composed sophistication to raw, dangerous, and sinister energy and not only continue to be engaging, but make ascending demands so confidently as to require full attention for the span of 40 minutes without interruption. Hypnotic, luscious, and timeless, Dogs is an album whose freshness and immediacy will never falter. ~ Gregory McIntosh
Personnel: Nina Nastasia (vocals, guitar); Nina Nastasia; Juliann Klopotic (violin); Joshua Carlebach (accordion); Dave Richards (bass instrument, upright bass, electric bass); Gonzalo Munoz (musical saw); Gerry Leonard (guitar); Kennan Gudjonsson (piano); Peter Yanowitz (drums).
Unknown Contributor Role: Kennan Gudjonsson.
Q (p.139) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]hese remain quintessential essays in minimal coffee-house Americana."
Uncut (p.111) - 4 stars out of 5 - "DOGS measures up strikingly well to its legend....As a singer/songwriter who can describe heightened emotional states with an undemonstrative elegance, she has few contemporary equals."
CMJ (p.5) - "DOGS displays her dissonance-laced Americana in its early form..." Dogs Review
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