The Golden Dogs - Big Eye Little Eye Album Review

The Golden Dogs
Big Eye Little Eye
Album Review

Canada hasn't come close to matching The New Pornographers for a while now, but The Golden Dogs seem to be aiming at a leapfrog, rather than just catching up.

Big Eye Little Eye, released late in 2006, is a punk pop album built on the most infectious anthems you will have heard in an age. It is fun, satisfying and edgy, in a way that The Libertines only hinted at. Like their country-mates, lead vocals are traded between Dave Azzolini, and Neko Case-alike wife and keyboard player Jess Grassia, but the manic energy runs through the whole band at a full-on 10 through the amps. Like the best pop punk, every track works as a song in its own right - stripped down and acoustic, these songs would still work (as indeed is proved on the quieter Theresa). Confident enough to improve on Paul McCartney's 1985, and have it not be the best song on the album by some margin, the sheer cockiness is justified by the sheer quality throughout.

4.5/5