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摘要

Jake Ewald is best known as a guitarist-songwriter for the Philadelphia indie-emo quartet Modern Baseball, but with that band currently on hiatus, Ewald has created Slaughter Beach, Dog as his creative outlet. Understated and introverted, it is a captivating evolution of his distinctive talents. Every one of the album's songs is worth attention, not just for Ewald's insightful, intelligent lyrics, but for the elegance of the simple musical arrangements which perfectly complement his words and melodies. The darkly surreal humour of 'Black Oak', the near perfect Mountain Goats homage of 'Dogs' and the insouciant Lemonheads-like lope of 'Heart Attack', are just three terrific reasons to get this album. JBk.