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01. The Black Dog - Ghosts Of Decay (Album Mix)
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03. The Black Dog - You've Heard This One Before (Album Mix)
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04. The Black Dog - [b] Owls In Tesco Bags (Album Mix)
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05. The Black Dog - Open Your Head (Album Mix)
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06. The Black Dog - Harder Times (Album Mix)
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07. The Black Dog - [b] We Never Wanted You (Album Mix)
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08. The Black Dog - 98 Russell Street (Album Mix)
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09. The Black Dog - (We Never Needed This) Fascist Groove Thang (Album Mix)
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10. The Black Dog - Thee Difference Ov Girls (Album Mix)
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11. The Black Dog - Empire Statement Humanoid (Album Mix)
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12. The Black Dog - Circus Ov Daath (Album Mix)
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13. The Black Dog - [b] Let Me Dada (Album Mix)
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14. The Black Dog - This Is Phil Talking (Album Mix)
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15. The Black Dog - Sound Ov Thee Crowd (Album Mix)
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16. The Black Dog - I Dare You (Album Mix)
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17. The Black Dog - Borstal Communications (Album Mix)
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ARTIST
BLACK DOG, THE
TITLE
The Grey Album
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
DUST SCIENCE
CATALOG #
DUST 113CD
DUST 113CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
5/19/2023
"... For months, we'd been working away on various projects and then, without really thinking about it,
The Black EP
just happened. It seemingly appeared from nowhere. We'd been talking about the old days; making music with friends and dodgy kit, renting small practice rooms and using makeshift recording studios. It was such a common thing back then, you could pick a dusty space in a half-derelict building for as little as £25 a month. In those days, the
Cabs
and
Human League
had studios with posh-sounding names, but in reality, they were the same old workspaces long abandoned by the industries they were built for. Nevertheless, the grand names made them sound magical. Sheffield had thousands of these spaces, and some still exist today, but their abundance and low-cost made Sheffield a very active place. Someone was always doing something. They'd exploded onto the scene in a flurry of excitement before disappearing just as quickly. There's something about these little mesters (workshops) that we believe lives in the very consciousness of Sheffield. It's one of the reasons we never really had big scenes like Manchester or Leeds. The Hacienda would've never been built here. We don't really do big gangs or have that kind of mentality. We tend to exist in little pockets, often leaving each other alone. It would be 30 years before any member of
The Black Dog
talked to
Cabaret Voltaire
. Sure, we'd stood outside their practice room as kids, trying to listen in, but never felt any reason to approach. Sheffield is like that. Once we had the first two tracks of the
Black EP
, we set off to see
Jon
at Do It Theesen, where he manually cut the tracks to an extremely limited set of 7" singles using a vinyl lathe. It just felt right to go back to the old ways; a small gang creating something special in workshops and sheds . . . We pushed further by adopting old practices, working with one synth per person and limiting the use of our computers. We only stopped short of putting everything on beer crates. It seems like madness these days, but there is raw creativity within these confines. Pretty much every band started this way.
Depeche Mode
travelled to the studio on the London Underground for their first appearance on
Top Of The Pops
, all lugging a synth each. That's how we approached the creation of this album; stripped back, raw and minimal -- it just felt so right. And then there's the competitive element that was influenced when the original Human League split and became
Human League MK II
and
Heaven 17
. Both continued to use the same studio to write what became the albums
Dare
and
Penthouse and Pavement
. There is something about that drive that is very Sheffield, just making stuff and hoping everything falls into place..."
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