Dog Race – Return The Day EP

Label: Fascination Street Records
Released: 6th June 2025

Dog Race’s debut EP, ‘Return The Day’ arrives crackling with eerie energy and analogue menace. It’s a haunting exploration of emotional paralysis, co-dependency and the slow erosion of joy, delving deep into the psyche and offering a soundscape born from sleepless nights and intrusive thoughts.

The EP opens with ‘Where The Barrel Meets The Badger’, setting a tone of unsettling calm before plunging into the turbulent waters of ‘The Leader’, a track that showcases the band’s signature blend of gothic and post-punk influences. 

The centrepiece, ‘Return The Day (Colours)’, is a blistering, fast-paced outcry. It’s followed by ’40 Winks To Wyoming’, where dreamy synth passages clash with moments of stark intensity – less a song about insomnia than an embodiment of it. 

Closer ‘It’s The Squeeze’ feels like the perfect distillation of everything Dog Race do well. The track builds layer upon layer of nervous energy before releasing it in bursts of calculated chaos.

It’s an impressive statement that suggests even greater things ahead, assuming any of us survive the psychological horror show they’re soundtracking.


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