# Dog Date Return With New Surprise Album Perfectly

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dog-date-return-with-new-surprise-album-perfectly/
- Published: 2026-07-21T16:13:19+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-21T16:18:20+00:00
- Original publisher: Stereogum
- Original article: https://stereogum.com/2505895/dog-date-return-with-new-surprise-album-perfectly/music/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- 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

## Summary

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.

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