Bristol’s rock trio Krooked Tongue are back with their latest release, “Dog Days“, taken from their upcoming debut album, arriving early 2026.
Recorded and produced with long-time producer Josh Gallop (Sergeant Thunderhoof, Mother Vulture, Phoxjaw) at Stage 2 Studios in Bath, “Dog Days” perfectly encapsulates the urgent, all encompassing feelings of teenage love.
On the single, vocalist and lyricist Oli Rainsford explains, “‘Dog Days’ is a love song that lingers on the lattice of a ghostly, nostalgia-drenched wedding dress. I feel like ‘Dog Days’ is a tune that perfectly sums up that feeling of teenage love; There’s a chaotic beauty in teenage love. It’s everything and nothing all at once. We trick ourselves into thinking that this moment, right now, is all there will ever be. Blinded by the vapour of adoration. Hindsight is everything now, but the innocence of youth is everything at the time. We attach importance to things that seem so trivial now but in the moment, are our whole life. Those years are ones where we find ourselves, who we are, and those first relationships we have are cornerstones throughout the rest of our lives. Nobody forgets their first love, that’s for damn sure. There’s a nostalgia for the teen years that I think resonates with most people in their 20s and beyond. A retrospective comfort that makes us remember the weather somehow always being good. Every memory dressed in a golden hue and every moment packed with a constant stream of peers that never seemed to fade. Of course, as we get older they do; friends drift apart and relationships, despite our naivety, come and go. But to have felt the full bearing of our budding emotions at that time, as if the whole world stopped for a summer just so you could live it to the maximum is a beautiful thing.
“‘Dog Days’ is a much more authentically written tune, if you can call it that. It was written on an acoustic originally and then spruced up later with all the niceties of our electric sound. You can still hear that acoustic throughout the tune though as we wanted to keep that rhythm and authentic feel throughout. It’s quite a bass heavy track despite its soft nature, which is quite a cool concoction of tonalities. I think it helps drive home that nostalgic fullness that the song harps on.”
This is the latest in their of singles, following previous offerings “Marigold”, “Let ‘Em Loose“, “Ember Mile”, “Nothing Ever Grows” and “You Don’t Need A Sun Tan.”
