A Giant Dog

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Songwriters

Andrew Cashen
Sabrina Ellis

Toy, the fourth LP from A Giant Dog and their second for Merge, captures the Austin quintet at the height of their powers. A solid year of road-dogging and woodshedding has made the band tighter than ever, the charging dynamo of Andrew Cashen and Andy Bauer’s guitars in lockstep with the primal chug of the rhythm section, Graham Low on bass and Daniel Blanchard on drums, in the latter’s recorded debut. Singer Sabrina Ellis turns in another masterful performance, in equal parts brash, defiant, vulnerable, and raw.

Lyrically, Sabrina and Andrew have a gift for making their personal frustrations and fuck-ups, fears, lusts, and addictions feel universal. While they have always given voice to the weirdos and creeps, they dig even deeper on Toy. “I feel I’ve revealed more in this album than ever before,” Sabrina confesses.

The band recorded Toy with Grammy-winning engineer Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn, Cat Power, The White Stripes, Reigning Sound), with Cashen producing it. “Andrew as producer makes a lot of sense,” Sabrina says. “He composes the songs and knows better than anyone what they should sound like in the end. With him at the helm, we’ve arrived at a raw, truthful, risky, and rangy album.”

 

Releases

A Giant Dog Neon Bible

Black Mirror
Keep the Car Running
Neon Bible
Intervention
Black Wave / Bad Vibrations
Ocean of Noise
The Well and the Lighthouse
(Antichrist Television Blues)
Windowsill
No Cars Go
My Body Is a Cage

A Giant Dog Toy

Get Away
Fake Plastic Trees
Bendover
Toy Gun
Lucky Ponderosa
Photograph
Roller Coaster
Angst in My Pants
Tongue Tied
Hero for the Weekend
Making Movies
Night Terror
Survive

A Giant Dog Pile

Intro
Creep
Hitchhike Love
Sleep When Dead
Sex & Drugs
& Rock & Roll
Jizzney
Not a Miracle
King Queen
I’ll Come Crashing
Birthday Song
Seventeen
Too Much Makeup
Get With You and Get High
Failing in Love

A Giant Dog Bone

All I Wanted
Nutria
Lady Slut
Cleveland Steven
Dammit Pomegranate
Virgin Girl
Can't Complain
Another World
Nature
Civil Whore
The Grand
Ghostcrest
Teasin' Ass Bitch

A Giant Dog Fight

Anyway
Chatterteeth
Cowboy
Teenage Orgasm
Strange
QYJARA
Saturday
Hang Around
Mi Fascina
World
Hunted Down
Too Metal
Dog Collar Blues
Trashcan USA
Pins N Needles

A Giant Dog House

To Put It Bluntly
Oh Miserable Me
Karma Police
Virgin Girl