2010’s Shame, Shame, catapulted Dr. Dog into the national spotlight despite the fact that the band had already put out six albums before that. We saw them in their infancy as a band at Bonnaroo 2007 and it was then we had the highest of hopes for this little band from Philly that could. This psychedelic indie-influenced rock band weaves through folk and Americana in their music. Be the Void, their seventh effort, is released today on Anti-Records and no doubt, Dr. Dog delivers. We were lucky to hear a preview of a few of the new tunes at Orlando Calling 2011 in November. And after listening to the entire album (a few times!), we really believe that Be the Void could be the album that takes them to the next level. So far, every song has fully captured our attention and certainly, our interest. Truly, there is no one song on the album that we can say is quite better than another, but we must point out ‘Lonesome’, ‘How Long Must I Wait’, ‘Vampire’ and ‘Over Here, Over There’ as a few of our favorites.

A few weeks ago, Dr. Dog provided a pre-release streaming of Be the Void exclusively on Team Coco. In our post about the pre-release stream, we also provided a stream of ‘Lonesome’. You can stream the entire album at American Songwriter. Below is a stream that ‘Lonesome’ and ‘That Old Black Hole’ from Be the Void and a few oldies, but goodies.