Feel the rush of blood to your head — Dizzy are back with a biting new single called "Barking Dog," which they've shared alongside a music video directed by boy wonder.
The song marks the Oshawa quartet's first new material since their 2020 sophomore album The Sun and Her Scorch, from which they later reworked some tracks with special guests for subsequent EP Separate Places.
"This song is mostly about how we're all just products of our youth; doomed in various ways none of us asked for," the band's Katie Munshaw shared of "Barking Dog," which definitely errs more towards the more organic dreamy sound the indie pop group found on their self-produced second album, stacking airy synths and intensifying drum fills into an eventual climax of fuzzed-out guitars and backing vocals.
The track was inspired by the bandleader's family dog having been abused by her prior owners, as Munshaw solemnly repeats, "And no amount of loving / Can stop the dog from barking / When she's in pain."
Of the video, the singer-songwriter added:
When it was time to discuss visuals for the album, I had serious anxiety about being on camera. I find it strange how musicians are often introverted people yet one of the largest parts of our job is visually selling ourselves to an audience. It feels unnatural to pine for strangers' attention to afford rent or whatever, and as someone who's particularly sensitive it isn't sustainable. To me the mask not only represents a calloused version of myself but it lends itself to an anonymity that I love. A Jane Doe of sorts. I like the idea of a female artist making the conscious decision to take her appearance out of the question for the audience.
Much like the sonic colour palette, the video is in a near-grayscale wash as a masked Munshaw spars with herself in what definitely looks like a school bathroom — the perfect place to very literally bring to life a song spun from the "don't beat yourself up, kid" cliché. A post-chorus exorcism ushers acceptance into the ring, as the vocalist takes one final long look in the mirror.
Watch the video for "Barking Dog" below.
The song marks the Oshawa quartet's first new material since their 2020 sophomore album The Sun and Her Scorch, from which they later reworked some tracks with special guests for subsequent EP Separate Places.
"This song is mostly about how we're all just products of our youth; doomed in various ways none of us asked for," the band's Katie Munshaw shared of "Barking Dog," which definitely errs more towards the more organic dreamy sound the indie pop group found on their self-produced second album, stacking airy synths and intensifying drum fills into an eventual climax of fuzzed-out guitars and backing vocals.
The track was inspired by the bandleader's family dog having been abused by her prior owners, as Munshaw solemnly repeats, "And no amount of loving / Can stop the dog from barking / When she's in pain."
Of the video, the singer-songwriter added:
When it was time to discuss visuals for the album, I had serious anxiety about being on camera. I find it strange how musicians are often introverted people yet one of the largest parts of our job is visually selling ourselves to an audience. It feels unnatural to pine for strangers' attention to afford rent or whatever, and as someone who's particularly sensitive it isn't sustainable. To me the mask not only represents a calloused version of myself but it lends itself to an anonymity that I love. A Jane Doe of sorts. I like the idea of a female artist making the conscious decision to take her appearance out of the question for the audience.
Much like the sonic colour palette, the video is in a near-grayscale wash as a masked Munshaw spars with herself in what definitely looks like a school bathroom — the perfect place to very literally bring to life a song spun from the "don't beat yourself up, kid" cliché. A post-chorus exorcism ushers acceptance into the ring, as the vocalist takes one final long look in the mirror.
Watch the video for "Barking Dog" below.
