Paul Jacobs Stirs Up a Psychedelic Melting Pot with Pink Dogs on the Green Grass
Published May 05, 2021
8Paul Jacobs, Montreal s garage-psych one-man-band (and drummer of arty post-punks Pottery), delivers just the right amount of dopamine on
Pink Dogs on the Green Grass, kickstarting what will hopefully be an optimistic summer. In terms of production, it s one of the prolific singer-songwriter s clearest-sounding batches of recordings, adding acoustic drums and open-chord folk to his trippy rock sound.
Capping off at 13 songs,
Pink Dogs on the Green Grass is a mix of everything at points sounding like early Deerhunter meets the off-kilter bongos of Paul Simon s
Words by Tom Parker
The song comes alongside a B-side cover, ‘All The Love In The World’.
Sydney’s Rolling Holy have just released a new single, ‘Snakes And Ladders’, boasting a B-side of ‘All The Love In The World’ – a cover of the beloved 2005 Nine Inch Nails track.
‘Snakes And Ladders’ is a joyous ’60s psych-pop number that brings to mind kaleidoscopic contemporaries Babe Rainbow and Morgan Delt. Lyrically, the song is about avoiding temptations of negativity, holding a grudge and tall poppy syndrome.
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Initially devised in reverse, where the bubbly, upbeat instrumentation veiled a cynical and bitter storyline about the desire to see others fail, John Cotter, the Sydney-based musician behind the project, decided to flip things around.