The Roof Dogs - Here You Are Vinyl

The Roof Dog's 2023 album "Here You Are" on 12" classic black vinyl.

“You’ve been testing out all your angles, your arms and legs are tangled up there in your room,” the Roof Dogs sing on Starpower, the penultimate track from “Here You Are.” The Roof Dogs’ first LP leans into repetition, drawn out musical passages, and lyrical themes of isolation and fatalism. On album opener Real Dancing, Cheshire sings of an imagined party where “nothing’s wrong,” only to paint us “captives” of our own fantasies as the song progresses into dissonance and paranoia. The album continues with Weather, a mid tempo reflection on becoming numb to the world’s injustice and the misguided assumption that chaos is equal to freedom. “I’ve become subservient to the weather” Marczak sings over a steady motorik beat. Other tracks deal with concepts of absurdism and futility (Nihilist Chant, All Red), disordered and confused pasts (Tune Up), and isolation and escapism (Starpower, Unicorn, Mutter). Side two opener Holy Jerks is a demented tale of society’s return to pagan rituals of human sacrifice in a future time of economic crisis and ecological disaster, broadly examining religious obsession with a cheeky, carnivalesque madness.