DOWNLOAD: Yellow Dogs – Gastronomic Meal
Yellow Dogs, a rock band originally from Iran where being a rock band is still subversive, make music with high stakes. At a basic level, “Gastronomic Meal,” off the band’s EP In the Kennel that’s coming out in May, is a song about eating, though it hardly sounds like a pleasant dining experience. “A human head with hot sauce and special bread,” for instance, is on the menu. It would be easy for a set of lyrics whose closest antecedent is that scene from Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom where everyone eats monkey brains to sound silly, but in the hands of Yellow Dogs they’re more of a battle cry. It helps that the band plays a meticulous take on English hard rock and punk, the sound falling somewhere between early Black Sabbath and Joy Division. For that, it’s no surprise that by song’s end the macabre meal described initially becomes a metaphor for genuine destruction: “They start to fight and shout/destroy the whole place” the band’s singer, Obaash, snarls with a Mark E. Smith affectation, though it still feels more or less the result of an unsettled stomach.
Yellow Dogs - Gastronomic Meal
