photo credit: Steve Lokomotiv
Heute gabs Post aus Alaska. Portugal The Man haben einen neuen Song, der heisst “Dead Dog”.
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Kurze Zeit nach dem Aufnehmen von “The Satanic Satanist” und einer Tour, unter anderem mit einem Halt in Feldkirch am Poolbar Festival und einem Auftritt im Mariaberg, haben sich Portugal The Man wieder in ihre Boston’s Camp Street Studios zurückgezogen und Songs für ein neues Album aufgenommen. So kommt es, dass die Band aus Alaska nur gerade mal sieben Monate später ihr nächstes Album “American Ghetto” auf den Markt schmeisst. Ein Song darauf heisst “The Dead Dog” und Sänger John Gourley sagt folgendes dazu:
John Gourley:
- “”The Dead Dog” was the second song that Anthony Saffery, Adam Taylor and I began working on for the American Ghetto project. We started tracking this on my second day back in Boston… it may have been the first, I am not quite sure. This track began with a break beat and a loose set of chords that I had put together in the morning before tracking. Lyrically, this was the first album where I really went out and referenced the streets and places around where I grew up. “The Dead Dog” was a bar out towards Big Lake off Pittman Road where, no offense Pittman ralliers, some pretty shady folks spent their time. I don’t know what it was about that area that drew me in but it did, for whatever reason. As with all the songs on American Ghetto there is a focus on our teenage lives and the things we did and the paths we chose. Some of the moments are sadder than others but The Dead Dog was written more about the setting than with a specific person in mind.The whole process of the American Ghetto recordings was basically a two week explosion of ideas followed by about 4 months of clean-up and focusing. This gave the songs space and time to breathe a bit before finding their true home in the album and in the finished piece.”
