User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Artist(s): Chris Lynch, Shane McKillop, Adam Rasmussen, Dustin Ineman
- Summary: The third full-length release for the Los Angeles-based duo of Chris Lynch and Adam Rasmussen was produced by Jacob Portrait.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival, Synth Pop
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 5 out of 10
-
Mixed: 5 out of 10
-
Negative: 0 out of 10
-
Aug 21, 2015Gardens & Villa have granted themselves a new lease on their artistic life, and have produced one of the year’s best rock albums.
-
Aug 17, 2015On balance, Music For Dogs kind of ends up resembling a bag of chocolate misshapes: weird-looking and questionable, but still somehow oddly loveable.
-
Aug 21, 2015While the songs on Music For Dogs aren’t as richly arranged and composed as those on the previous two albums, that may be by design.
-
Aug 17, 2015[The hammered piano is] a slightly overdone element, but there’s much to enjoy here in the group’s disenchantment with the dubious benefits of email, blogs, search engines and telecoms.
-
Aug 17, 2015If Dunes was their exploration of the bleary-eyed haze of romance, then Music For Dogs is the clarion call of lucidity, cutting through that fog, certain and electrifying.
-
Aug 17, 2015While Lynch and Rasmussen manage a keen awareness of how technology will continue to shape us, the way they process that fear feels tired, not adding anything new to the conversation.
-
Aug 21, 2015Gardens & Villa’s self-conscious, spindling attempts at regression and societal contemplation are admirable and occasionally catchy, but there are so many other albums--Reflektor, Kid A, even the oft-maligned, ahead-of-its-time Metal Machine Music--that navigate the intricacies of technology and society more compellingly and less heavy-handedly that you can’t help but write it off as another brick in the firewall.
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 0 out of
-
Mixed: 0 out of
-
Negative: 0 out of