While their genre of music is nothing uncommon, Dr. Dog has a very unique sound that can't be mistaken by today's other pop indie bands. Their trend of raspy vocals (Scott McMicken and Toby Leaman) mixed with organic, catchy guitar rifts (Frank McElroy), mingled drumming (Eric Slick), and dramatic keyboards (Zach Miller) continues with Dr. Dog's seventh LP Be The Void.When this album was in the works, I was hoping Dr. Dog would move towards something I have had yet to hear from this talented band. After listening to Be The Void I was slightly disappointed to hear a lot of similar sounds the band has used before. However, this is not necessarily a bad thing, as the band took what they had learned from their more poppy music from Fate and Shame, Shame and brought back their strong, psych rock sound from their older albums Easy Beat and We All Belong. This blend has created songs that use more raw guitar rifts , such as, "Vampire" and "Lonesome".
While Be The Void is a more dynamic, southern rock album, Dr. Dog has stayed true to writing their music with layers of pop harmonies, something that gives this band their unique sound. Songs like "How Long Must I Wait" and "Do The Trick" are just like the songs that first drew me to this band back in 2009.
Be The Void is another solid album by Dr. Dog and it continues their impressive run of making unique but traditional sounding 60's style pop/rock music. While I can't quite find that one song that makes me want to keep playing on repeat, like "Shadow People" from Shame, Shame or "The Old Days" from Fate, I think I will keep going back to this album because this band does a great job paying attention to detail on each one of their songs, which is the essence to making a fantastic album.
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