Dogs - This Stone Is A Bullet (Weekender)
4/5
By: Alex Lee Thomson
There was once a time when the thought of being kept up all night by the crash of Dogs howling would have been quite galling, but when we're talking about one of the most pre-eminent punk bands in Britain suddenly all that changes as we welcome long, sleepless nights with this noise.
The vocals are a wee bit Jam like, when The Jam were at the top of their game, and the song structure and all round feel and appeal appears more Buzzcocks, again from a time when they too were riding at the height of their abilities. Because of these striking comparisons you can't give Dogs any originality credentials, but as they're doing music this good right here and now, you have to love them for it.
'This Stone Is A Bullet' is fun enough to get your jollies off to, like The Riffles, and sounds put together well enough on record that there's no reason you wouldn't want to keep coming back to it for shits 'n' giggles. Lyrically, you could compare it to Blur as it's the same class war deprived of disdain that worked so well in the 90s but taken a step back into the world of ramshackle punk and underachieving glam it's come off completely different and talks to a whole dissimilar breed of individual. It's unhesitant and barks at you with a flair for flawlessness and unleashes hell with a centurion like prowess and distinction, bedding in for a long winter of mosh pit fighting and perversion. An old fashioned punk song being made this well today is nothing short of enlivening and electrifying to hear.
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