A Giant Dog

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Songwriters

Andrew Cashen
Sabrina Ellis

The moment the needle drops on Bite, one’s conception of what an A Giant Dog record sounds like bends like space and time around a starship running at lightspeed.

The biggest point of departure is that Bite is a concept album, concerning characters who find themselves moving in and out of a virtual reality called Avalonia. You’re thrown into it quickly, as a calm, robotic voice says, “Welcome to Avalonia, happiness awaits inside” over a crushing synth line that segues into an opulent string arrangement.

The songs on Bite are full of bombast, at turns calling to mind the spacefaring operatic rock of Electric Light Orchestra and the high drama of an Ennio Morricone film score. The album’s narrative sweep is epic in scope, its characters facing impossible odds and certain doom, existing as comfortably with the sci-fi grandiosity of Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak as it does with the high fantasy of Dio and Iron Maiden.

Releases

A Giant Dog Bite

Welcome to Avalonia
Happiness Awaits Inside
I Believe
In Destiny
Different Than
A Daydream
Watch Me Sleeping
Watch it Burn
In Rainbows

A Giant Dog Toy

Get Away
Fake Plastic Trees
Bendover
Toy Gun
Lucky Ponderosa
Photograph
Roller Coaster
Angst in My Pants
Tongue Tied
Hero for the Weekend
Making Movies
Night Terror
Survive

A Giant Dog Pile

Intro
Creep
Hitchhike Love
Sleep When Dead
Sex & Drugs
& Rock & Roll
Jizzney
Not a Miracle
King Queen
I’ll Come Crashing
Birthday Song
Seventeen
Too Much Makeup
Get With You and Get High
Failing in Love

A Giant Dog Bone

All I Wanted
Nutria
Lady Slut
Cleveland Steven
Dammit Pomegranate
Virgin Girl
Can't Complain
Another World
Nature
Civil Whore
The Grand
Ghostcrest
Teasin' Ass Bitch

A Giant Dog Fight

Anyway
Chatterteeth
Cowboy
Teenage Orgasm
Strange
QYJARA
Saturday
Hang Around
Mi Fascina
World
Hunted Down
Too Metal
Dog Collar Blues
Trashcan USA
Pins N Needles

A Giant Dog House

To Put It Bluntly
Oh Miserable Me
Karma Police
Virgin Girl