A Giant Dog have returned with a brand new album. Bite is out August 25 through Merge. Described as an idea album about gender dysphoria, the follow-up to 2017’s Toy, is ready in a utopia referred to as Avalonia. It’s launched by the lead single “Totally different Than.” Take heed to it beneath.
“Inside our earlier albums, the subject material, the lyrics are all very private, primarily based on our experiences—self-centered, even,” vocalist Sabrina Ellis stated in a press release. “In making this conceptual album, we needed to discover ourselves inside, or venture ourselves into, the principal characters. We developed them, acquired to know their minds, feelings, and motivations, after which expressed these in 9 songs. The songs aren’t demonstrative as in musical theater. As a substitute, the songs are heated moments, inner expressions that stand on their very own.”
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Chew:
01 Welcome to Avalonia
02 Happiness Awaits Inside
03 I Consider
04 In Future
05 Totally different Than
06 A Daydream
07 Watch Me Sleeping
08 Watch It Burn
09 In Rainbows