“Return The Day” by Dog Race – An EP Feature

     Dog Race, a band based in the UK, recently released the 5-song EP “Return The Day.” Our favorites tracks are “Return The Day (Colours)” and “It’s The Squeeze.” But referring to the EP in general, the band explained that it as:
  "A soundscape born from sleepless nights, intrusive thoughts, and the quiet war between the mind and the world around me. Each track pulls at the threads of cultish beliefs and everyday expectations, exposing the weight they place on someone already battling inner turmoil."

      The members are Katie Healy (vocals), Jed Finkelstein (drums), James Kelly (guitar), Will Macnab (bass), and Dillon Willis (synth). Their sound is easily distinguished from other songs featured on Indie Obsessive. The band is from England, but they show German influences, and as evidenced in “Return The Day (Colours)” and “It’s The Squeeze,” lyrical chants are a strength of Dog Race.

     “Return The Day (Colours)” by Dog Race

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Lyrics of “Return The Day (Colours)” by Dog Race
Count the stars getting out the shower
Boiling point, looks like a hot poached salmon
Finger the pink, beside the belly button
The curtains are catching a tan this Sunday
 
The Lord dimmed the virgin-stained windows
The sheet magenta, now a sheet of pale dogwood
I'd like to report a bad batch, act pronto!
My tears keep whispering I should be serenity
 
I'll try to return the day at the checkout counter
I'll try to return the day at the checkout counter
 
Pause the hand, circling the hour
The chestnut stain has wilted to a sweet timber
Finger the stitch, between the cord patch pockets
The ceilings are holding a mass this Sunday
The Lord dimmed the virgin-stained windows
The sheet of marine, a sheet of ancient
I'd like to report a bad batch, act pronto!
My tears keep whispering I should be serenity
 

I'll try to return the day at the checkout counter
I'll try to return the day at the checkout counter
My colours are not working, my colours stopped working
[Repeating]

     “It's The Squeeze” by Dog Race

Lyrics of “It's The Squeeze” by Dog Race
How many studies, have aided your dysfunction
I’m in pain over here, and I can’t get a dog’s attention
It's a mutual understanding, that your bluey takes the winning
And I must download a squeezy app, to cure my suffering
 
Oh no, he won’t leave me alone
I owe my life to him, it’s just the situation
If a park run makes me bleed and cry
Then why suggest a marathon
I call it alone time with fiber glass insulation
 
I know that it’s my fault, but then it’s not
But then it is, but then it’s not, but then it is again
 
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
 
A budding rose bush is bursting into season
European nightcrawlers are itching for a feeding
Sawflies haunt the rosa peace, they ponder what is destined
She wonders if she’ll ever breed or shortly follow nature
 
Oh no, he won’t leave me alone
I owe my life to him, but it's just the situation
If I wage a war with life, I’ll never make a parent
I call it alone time with pesticide chrysanthemum
 
I know that it’s my fault, but then it’s not
But then it is, but then it’s not, but then it is
But then it’s not, but then it is again
 
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It's not the love [Repeating]