Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Beware the hound that bites, for they are the ones that have intuition, they are the ones who growl long before everybody else cottons on that the subject is not trustworthy, they can spot a bogus heart as quickly as they can sniff out Fake News & Propaganda, this dog bites, snaps with reason and isn’t afraid of using the conveyer of misinformation as its personal method of hygiene.
The harder falsehoods try to land their story, the more the dog will bite back, the dog after all is the inner gut that we should be listening to, that we must rely on when all around is a power struggle between what is right and what is the rhetoric of fools, the nomads peddling publicity and exposure.
Ferocious Dog is the representation of our gut feeling, hard hitting, savage, merciless, and yet with the best interests of our collective well-being in their minds. It comes as no surprise that for the Nottinghamshire six-piece the truth is a sacred beast worth protecting, steeped in the combination of heady Punk-Rock and the gentle, yet often brutal, world of Folk, the truth is a place where guards are twitchy, they see propaganda as an evil stalking the streets and one in which needs obliterating.
The only way to confront the sincerity held mask of Fake News is head on, and across songs such as Traitor’s Gate, The Landscape Artist, the poignant and welcome Justice For 96, Bedlam Boys and Yellow Feather the band rage and with purpose.
We are killing our planet, we have sank to the lows of painting football supporters as mindless fools whilst all the time blaming them for their woes, colouring them as being reckless, drunks, when at the same time refusing to convict the real criminals who allowed 96 people to die, we have shamefully opened our society to ridicule as we expose our island to full of little men and women with small minds; we are broken and the dog growls further and deeper into the night. Thankfully we have the conscious of our gut, we know all this is wrong, that we have been led by the nose into thinking that we dare not complain, after all what have we truly to lose, we are kept just on the right side of comfortable, that is what propaganda will do to our sense, it will make us compliant and willing to turn a blind eye.
To listen to the Ferocious Dog as it snarls and growls at the world is to show responsibility, an attitude of commitment to our gut instinct, and it is one on which Ferocious Dog’s Fake News & Propaganda is the only form of broadcast we should take seriously. A tremendously passionate album filled with facts, a broadsheet you can trust.
Ian D. Hall