Are you sitting comfortably?..then I'll begin: Long long ago, back in the days when all music made with machines was expected to sound like either a juggernaut juddering through a foundation-shaking block party or a wispy-haired buddha noodling through the ambient emptiness of a distant star system(with a dub bassline), there existed in an unfashionable corner of money-blighted essex, a band called Black Dog. They were unusual in that, despite living near the Prodigy, and existing in a millieu where EVERYONE AND THEIR GRAN was making hit records, they never really made anything that made you jump up and dance like a puppet with the strings on fire. The ...  Read the complete review