Melbourne’s Metdog have absolutely cemented their status as one of the major players of the contemporary garage-/synth-/eggpunk scene with last year’s pretty fucking gaga full length Questions and Answers Regarding Computers and Screens. For their newest LP though, they dial down the overall weirdness ever-so-slightly, which i’m gonna say is actually for the better as i think another iteration of that ’90s PC- / early web-themed insanity and ultra-cheesy general MIDI-esque sonics certainly wouldn’t hit quite as hard the second time around. Instead we get a somewhat more streamlined and straightforward bunch of alarmingly catchy garage tunes that still let their freak flag fly aplenty, just in case you were worried things might get even remotely too serious here. Anyway, it’s certainly their most substantial release so far, supported by a matching growth in the songwriting department without giving up too much of the group’s overall playfulness and unpredictability.
