Canines Canines demo cassette
I was really drawn to the grittiness of these tracks. The growling, disgruntled vocals really added to the atmosphere of unease that they created. Their cover of “A Forest” by the CURE (titled “Une Foreât” on their demo) caught me off guard in the best way; I didn’t recognize it at first, but I really enjoyed their iteration of it, especially with the intensity of desire that built with the repetition of the word “again.” There were a couple songs where I felt they built the tension super well, but then there wasn’t quite the explosion that I had imagined. Regardless, I loved the grunting and growling and pure emotion in every track.