Album Review
Citizen - Calling The Dogs
'Calling The Dogs' is a blistering alt-rock tour de force.
Released: 5th October 2023
Words: Rob Mair
As the adage goes, if sharks stop swimming, they die. Citizen, it seems, must fear the same fate as they once again embrace reinvention in their perpetual march of forward-thinking evolution. Indeed, breakout 'Youth' may be a lifetime ago, let alone an all-too-brief decade, and while some may find it hard to reconcile the band they were with what they've become, there's no doubt that 'Calling The Dogs' is a blistering alt-rock tour de force.
Even compared to 2021's excellent and genre-blurring 'Life In Your Glass World', 'Calling The Dogs' finds the group embracing their pop and indie sensibilities. At times, this might manifest as barbed garage rock jams, like 'Can't Take It Slow' or 'Takes One To Know One', or breezy power-pop, like on the excellent 'If You're Lonely'. The motorifik 'Dogs', meanwhile, sees the band heading into post-punk territory – and carrying it off rather superbly.
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