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Slaughter Beach Dog: Safe and Also No Fear - Ocean Dip Blue

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Management number 205832264 Release Date 2025/10/22 List Price $89.10 Model Number 205832264
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Title: Safe and Also No Fear - Ocean Dip Blue
Artist: Slaughter Beach Dog
Label: Lame-O
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 843563176597
Genre: Rock

Across the previous Slaughter Beach, Dog albums, Jake Ewald (of Modern Baseball) has crafted a specific sound. It's one that incorporates pop music, indie-rock, folk, and just the faintest dash of punk in order to create something that's accessible but still artistically rich. With Safe And Also No Fear, the band's third album, Ewald has abandoned his usual practices in service of creating something that, try as one might, isn't so easy to describe. In the wake of 2017's Birdie, an album awash in warm tones and bubbly pop hooks, Safe And Also No Fear can't help but feel like a turn toward darkness. It's not one that's instigated by the outside world-as inescapable as it may be-but instead the dramatic shifts of a person's interior life. Where Ewald once offered tightly woven vignettes about characters that mirrored the people in his life, Safe And Also No Fear finds him naked at the album's center, questioning everything he knows about himself. Around him, bassist Ian Farmer, guitarist Nick Harris, and drummer Zack Robbins spin out songs that are dense, swirling amalgams of difficult questions and hard-earned realizations-the kind that can't be expressed through the accepted structures of pop music. This isn't to say there aren't hooks, as songs like "Good Ones" and "One Day" have effervescent melodies anchoring them, but Safe And Also No Fear generally avoids taking the clear-cut path. As Ewald tells it, that's a horrifying thing to put out into the world. After putting the finishing touches on the album, he sat down and listened back to the demos he'd first made, then the album itself, and realized it sounded unlike anything he'd ever done before. His creative impulses had changed over the years, and the result was a record that maybe his followers wouldn't actually like. Ewald seemingly addresses this anxiety during the album's most ambitious track, the seven-minute long "Black Oak.

Tracks:
1.1 One Down
1.2 Good Ones
1.3 The Dogs
1.4 Black Oak
1.5 Petersburg
1.6 Tangerine
1.7 Heart Attack
1.8 One Day
1.9 Map of the Stars
1.10 Anything

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