It does kind of pain me to have very little to say about an album sometimes, and this is especially one of those circumstances. While I went in not really expecting much from Dogsbody or really the group of Model/Actriz, I would be lying if I said that I wasn't certainly impressed by some of the material on this album - it's aggressive as all get-out sonically, driven by hard walls of distortion and smashing percussion, which lights a fire under my ass if nothing else. I don't even fault this album for the vocals like I've seen some others do, and frankly I find Cole Haden's monotone vocals perfectly suited for the style here, evident on the album's best moments like "Mosquito", "Crossing Guard", or the gentle conclusion with "Sun In". Ultimately, my reservations come with the fact that this isn't exactly my kind of thing, although I did find it to be amongst the most interesting albums I've heard this year - it may also rank as one of the most aggressive, which is never a bad thing in my mind. I did get a sense that it was kind of meandering at points, and a song like "Divers" somehow borders on Wild Life Syndrome at just four minutes, but if you're the kind of person that loves this industrial style of punk, you'll get a kick out of this - hell, I'm not crazy about this record and I see the appeal.
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Listen to Dogsbody.
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