For instance, Leaman revisited вЂњEngineer SaysвЂќ only to find himself writing an entirely different tune. While Psychedelic Swamp consists mostly of reinterpreted material, the band also found themselves creating new tracks inspired by the old ones. And this one, of course, has the whole studio treatment.вЂќ And so much of the original recordings were just keyboard-based, and I donвЂ™t think there was any bass or drum on the whole first record. вЂњYouвЂ™re almost treating your own songs like theyвЂ™re cover songs, and itвЂ™s songs that we didnвЂ™t even really play live, so we didnвЂ™t have any real concept of what the arrangement would end up being like.

And with this one, weвЂ™re working on the oldest Dr. Leaman says, вЂњItвЂ™s actually weird working on that stuff, because you know usually when youвЂ™re working on a record - or almost always when youвЂ™re working on a record - youвЂ™re working on new tunes. But the concept with which the musicians approached the record was completely new territory. Slippery studio making more of their unique brand of oddball, psychedelic rock that blends вЂ™50s, вЂ™60s, and вЂ™70s pop. The band spent four months this year at their Mt. Part of the original record that is so unlistenable is that,вЂќ he pauses to laugh, вЂњit was trapped in a psychedelic swamp.вЂќ вЂњThe concept behind it is that we were always going to redo it and make it super-accessible pop, which was built into the concept of Psychedelic Swamp.

The strange thing is not that the band is returning to the first thing they ever created together, but that returning was their intention all the while. вЂњWe just got masters back today,вЂќ bassist/songwriter/vocalist Toby Leaman told us last week. Now 15 years later, the album has gotten a complete makeover and will at last see the light of day in early 2016. Dog diehard can list the LPвЂ™s songs - but the collection never got a chance to really shine. Sure, thereвЂ™ve been bootlegs, and any long-time Dr. Dog made their first record, Psychedelic Swamp, in 2000 but never officially released it.

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