Label: Penultimate Press
Format: Tape
Genre: Experimental
In process of stocking: due on/around June 12th
'Dog FM is the debut release by the London-based duo of field recordist Oliver Chapman and poet Phoebe Eccles. Combining Chapman’s seemingly banal snapshots of a family car journey with Eccles’ fantastic, reflective spoken verse, Dog FM deftly transports the listener through a series of uncanny and oft-times bizarre audio travelogs where tension and expanse alternate to disorientating effect. By exploring the dynamics of a typical close-quarters family exchange, and with repeated use of ‘canine’ annotation, Chapman reimagines the car as both a confine and a means of escape, with Eccles’ verse acting as thematic glue, bonding memory, dream and textural reference to the road map. Dog FM brings a multifaceted lens over a commonplace event, exploding our expectations, and allowing us to surrender the wheel —and our fate— to kismet outcomes.' - Graham Lambkin