{"id":2798,"date":"2025-11-30T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:04:15","slug":"the-black-dog-loud-ambient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"the black dog &#8211; loud ambient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"wp-image-2799\" style=\"width: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-4.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-4-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-4-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-4-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-4-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/><br \/><br \/>anyone who follows this low key corner of the internet will know about my love for the sheffield collective known as <strong>the black dog<\/strong>.<br \/>however in 2025 they have up&#8217;d their game to a whole new level.<br \/>over the last few years they been all about their love for airports, photography, concrete, sleep, and brutalism via their predominantly drone intense ambient albums, &#8216;<em>music for photographers<\/em>&#8216;, &#8216;<em>my brutal life<\/em>&#8216; (volumes 1 and 2 and this years ambient 3cd boxset), and &#8216;<em>sleep deprivation<\/em>&#8216;.<br \/>then out of the blue a couple of months ago, they announced a return to the darker corners of the dancefloor as they had a revised love for their analogue machines and rothko referencing artwork.<br \/>especially the rediscovery of their 707, 808, and 909 drum machines.<br \/>subsequently they hit the record button and went for it.<br \/>the end result is this album with very little in the way of tweaks and procrastinations, and a brilliant return to the sweet spot between ambient and techno.<br \/>the bass is modern era deep and fantastic, the beats are wall shakingly intense, and the melodies are a throwback to the golden era of the genre.<br \/>easy summary #1 : bleeps-n-bass never sounded as good as this.<br \/>easy summary #2 : 2025 : the year of <strong>the black dog<\/strong>.<br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more detail<\/span> : <a href=\"https:\/\/theblackdog.bandcamp.com\/album\/loud-ambient\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>anyone who follows this low key corner of the internet will know about my love for the sheffield collective known as the black dog.however in 2025 they have up&#8217;d their game to a whole new level.over the last few years they been all about their love for airports, photography, concrete, sleep, and brutalism via their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}