"Stray Animal" by dogmarket

In advance of their album ‘Images of Survival'  (due out in exactly one month on Valentine's Day), dogmarket today has released "Stray Animal".

It has an interesting history which I think will not only aptly illustrate their artistic development but will chime with many other DIY creatives.

Demoed around three years ago as an acoustic track, it's waited patiently until now when its creator "finally had the production knowledge to make it sound how I wanted." A good lesson I think in patience and having the courage to park a song rather than put it out in a compromised state.

Now clothed in electronica, "Stray Animal" possesses its original lyrics which now have the setting dogmarket judges displays them to their best advantage & which accentuate their force.

This was a very good call  in my opinion: the song itself carries a heavy emotional burden which speak directly to personal experience at the original time of writing and the words gain by the haunting (I'd go so far as harrowing) arrangement. An acoustic guitar might have offered the counterpoint option but I am sure this arrangement was the right one to fully bring out the considerable quantities of anguish, frustration & of feeling unappreciated and even unloved.

It's a powerful song now: it will unsettle you and hopefully will inspire others out there who know they have something valuable and are caught agonisingly between awaiting perfection & the temptation to go with what they've got.