Station Identification

The Black Dog has, with various members over the years (key to its longevity being Ken Downie), recorded electronic music on and off since the tail end of the 1980s. Last year they had a residency at the Moore Street electricity substation in their native Sheffield, England. Resulting from that experiment in space-specific music is a quartet of “brutalist hymns” for what the Black Dog refer to as an “industrial cathedral.” These are the tracks that make up the new Nybrutalism EP. They are dense with overtones, like church organs on overdrive, all supercharged echo. The final track, “We Build on Dust,” pulses majestically, the whale song of infrastructure.

https://theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/nybrutalism-ep?from=embed

This was originally published in Listening Post (0018), the January 17, 2024, issue of This Week in Sound.