Music For Dogs, by Gardens & Villa

Music For Dogs

by Gardens & Villa

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1.	Intro 00:50	buy track
2.	Maximize Results 03:34	buy track
3.	Fixations 03:53	buy track
4.	Everybody 03:08	buy track
5.	Paradise 03:58	buy track
6.	Alone in the City 02:59	buy track
7.	General Research 04:16	buy track
8.	Express 02:43	buy track
9.	Happy Times 04:26	buy track
10.	Jubilee 03:06	buy track
11.	I Already Do 03:37	buy track

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The revelation that we hear play out so inspiringly across 'Music For Dogs' is one that came at a make-or-break moment for the band last year. Pushed to fall in line as an indie-pop act while their artistic interests lie as much in the avant-garde. Pushed deeper into debt just to keep their band alive. Pushed from within to leave the comfort zone of their longtime home base in Santa Barbara and set up a new HQ in Los Angeles. Lynch and Rasmussen responded by bucking the idea of "art as a career" and making art their very way of life. With a top-to-bottom renovation of a warehouse space in LA's Frogtown neighborhood they've named Space Command and shared with visual artists, designers, and creatives, the pair began to live and write music on their own terms, just as they'd done before their music was placed "on the marketplace."

Music For Dogs is a deeply personal album that pokes, prods, and even strangely celebrates the zeitgeist of music commerce, pleasure culture, technological advances and the new home they've found in Los Angeles. The New Age and Eastern Religion sentiments that rippled across their first two albums (2011's 'Gardens & Villa' and 2014's 'Dunes') have been swapped out with a new sort of zen pop-Nihilsm. What's Nihilism anyway but Buddhism with a fuck-it attitude? They've found a way to live on the firing line, a way to actually harvest creative energy from our sad Internet tendencies, the uncertain future. "My whole life fixation/See if we can make it underneath the radar," goes Lynch and Rasmussen's respective call-and-response on "Fixations," a song about the beauty in bottoming out and then finding the false bottom. Lynch could mean living as a creative in the underground or living outside peripheral view of the NSA — or the absurdity of feeling a disconnect from a world that is so very very connected. Under the stewardship of visionary producer Jacob Portrait and with irreplaceable rhythm section Dusty Ineman (drums) and Shane McKillop (bass), "Fixations" — and a great deal of 'Music For Dogs' — is really just Gardens & Villa doing what it has always done best. G&V creates Byzantine melodies and richly interwoven arrangements for synths, guitars and vocals that work incredibly well on a cerebral level, but wouldn't upset a late night Korean karaoke outing either.

The influences behind 'Music For Dogs' aren't trying to hide anywhere— Eno's 'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)', Bowie's 'Low', Bill Nelson's 'Chimera', Cleaners From Venus. But the album doesn't feel wired into a particular 74-84 purview. Music For Dogs maintains a much wider scope, sounding as much like tomorrow as it does '76. Time is a flat circle anyhow, right? A flat spinning, oblique piece of vinyl. Flip it over. Play it again. Time is a broken record. In our latest, greatest End of Times — here in this Internet Cat Driven Economy — we need 'Music For Dogs'.

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released August 21, 2015

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Gardens & Villa Los Angeles, California

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May 25

Come What May

Santa Barbara, CA

discography

Gordon Von Zilla

Aug 2020
Hurrah

Jul 2020
Music For Dogs

Aug 2015
Dunes

Feb 2014
Gardens & Villa

Jul 2011
Gardens & Villa

Jan 2011

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