So unbelievably stoked!!! My music is coming out on a cassette tape thanks to FRM-AT / Label & Booking
https://frmat.bandcamp.com/…/big-dog-rivers-presents-t-dawg…
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T Dawg Nation is the new EP from Big Dog Rivers, the solo project of Yorkshire born Helsinki resident Tyla Haigh. For his FRM-AT debut, and first physical release, Big Dog Rivers is launching the project into the world of electronic pop music. The lo-fi grainy sunshine haze of earlier releases Them Oh’s and Dreamroller remains, but concise structures and focused melodies have replaced the meandering jams.
“The tracks are reworks of previous songs and demos. So, I feel T Dawg Nation is like the alter ego of Big Dog Rivers. Turning the guitar driven slacker rock into electronic dream pop.”
The result is a 4 track EP that comes across like peak 4AD dream pop riddled with the anxieties of twenty-first century living. A hallucinogenic mashing together of stumbling beats, effects drenched vocals blasted through blown out speakers.
''I had a lot of time in Helsinki to focus on this project as it was the first time I wasn't putting my efforts into a band (Leecher). I had unused demos from 2013-2017 which I didn't necessarily like, but still it felt a shame to waste them. I started pulling tracks from different recordings, lots of splitting, copy pasting and looping. Months of just listening and finding new rhythms by moving beats, taking away beats and so on. It was like multiple 1000 piece puzzles on the same table, fitting the pieces together and getting an unusual outcome''.
