DOG UNIT

“Combining the cinematic scope of classic post-rock (Tortoise, Trans Am, Slint) with the mechanical verve of ’70s Kraut and psych”- Loud and Quiet

Dog Unit make far more than just a collection of individually wound super-melodic Instrumental rock songs — they make long-form swathes of music precision-engineered for a single sitting, complete with resting stops, signposts and tiny diversions along the way.

Anyone who’s seen the band live won’t be surprised by this knack for world creation, writing and performing music designed to arc over the course of an uninterrupted hour, with
the quartet’s musical idiosyncrasies meshing for just the right recipe: Henry Scowcroft and Sam Walton on guitars that alternate between howling solo and poised melodicism, James
Weaver as super-concise pop-dub bass maestro, and maverick-motorik drummer Lucy Jamieson holding everything down.

Both live and on record, there’s a sense that this isn’t four musicians, but one 16- limbed creature guiding its listeners on an undulating journey across instrumental music that
leans just as heavily on tune-first, purist pop qualities as it does the groove and ambience of post-rock pioneers like Tortoise or Stereolab: across a Dog Unit performance, there’s frantic
bangers and bubbling atmosphere, rise and fall, point and counterpoint, and the kind of echoes and callbacks that only become more detailed the closer you listen.

At Home is the latest stop on Dog Unit’s journey, which began in 2020 with the Barking to Gospel EP and continued with 2022’s Turn Right And Right Again EP. They are currently deep into writing sessions for their second album, due out in 2026.