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Dog Date Return With New Surprise Album Perfectly
New York garage-punk act Dog Date have released a surprise new album, Perfectly, roughly a year after frontman Dylan Kennedy announced the band's breakup on Instagram. The unexpected return highlights how the project has shifted shape again, going from a solo endeavour to a full band and now apparently back to a one-man effort, while keeping its raw, high-energy sound intact.
The eight-track, 15-minute record appeared on Bandcamp with only a cryptic Instagram post as warning. According to its Bandcamp description, Kennedy wrote, recorded and performed the entire album himself, despite songs that sound as though they were captured live by a full band. Dog Date began in 2015 as Kennedy's solo project before expanding into a double-drummer lineup for 2024's Zinger; Perfectly is out now as a self-released title.
In short
- Dog Date surprise-release new album Perfectly on Bandcamp
- Comes about a year after the band's announced breakup
- Dylan Kennedy wrote, recorded and performed it solo
Explained simply
Dog Date is a garage-punk project from New York fronted by Dylan Kennedy. It started in 2015 as a solo venture, then grew into a full band with two drummers for the 2024 album Zinger, before Kennedy announced last year, via Instagram, that the band was splitting up.
Around a year on, the project has resurfaced with little warning, releasing a new album called Perfectly directly on Bandcamp. Notably, Kennedy says he wrote, recorded and performed every part of it himself, even though it sounds like a full band playing live, which marks a shift back to the project's solo roots.
The story matters mainly to fans of the garage-punk and DIY music scene, as it shows an act reversing a very public breakup announcement and returning in a stripped-back, self-released form rather than reforming the full band lineup.