★★★★★
ANTI- B-Room, the new album from Philadelphia indie darlings Dr. Dog, finds the band unquestionably grown into their own wild collage of sound, with The Beatles and Beach Boys influences that constantly haunted their earlier efforts slightly less dominant now. Naturally, the essence of Dr. Dog that originally provoked those comparisons - soaring harmonies and simple, catchy melodies - are still as strong as ever...
- www.jambands.com
2013-11-04
★★★★★
Delaware Valley psychedelic rockers Dr. Dog return to the forefront of hip indie with their latest release B-Room. With less than a year's time elapsed since Be the Void, the band's 2012 commercial and critical break-out success, it seems the band is losing little time or momentum fulfilling a unique golden-era vision of what makes a pop song. From lo-fi origins in the early '00s, Dr. Dog has undergone metamorphosis with nearly every studio album...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-24
★★★★★
Dr. Dog has gotten to the point where its songs sound effortless. It's not about intricate construction--although there's nothing sloppy or flawed about any of these songs--but rather a mood. Scott McMicken, the lead guitarist and vocalist, explains it like this: "The sound creates a feeling that is intuitive rather than intellectual." Turning on B-Room makes the problems melt away. Life is instantly sunnier...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-10-04
★★★★★
From the title of their new album, B-Room, to the band's label, Anti-, the Philadelphia sextet, Dr. Dog, is dropping hints that they're not sprung-out on current music fads. Their solution to industry trends is simple: they're not going to be a part of it. Though their withdrawal doesn't exactly have them branching out to undiscovered turfs...
- www.cmj.com
2013-10-03
★★★★★
My first Dr. Dog experience came in the form of a Fate-era Los Angeles press showcase. The spread was pleasant enough: complimentary fish tacos and Dos Equis, and a tribe of thickly bearded, sunglass-clad dudes from Philly doling out '60s throwback pop rocks to the absolute cream of the noontime indie-rag press. They played; we ate Wahoo's and left the cozy hotel reception room with eardrums a'throb...
- filtermagazine.com
2013-10-03
★★★★★
Dr. Dog has been reliable for quite some time when it comes to churning out hook-filled albums, and B-Room is another win for the Philadelphia-based band. The psychedelic-folk feel that the group has come to be known for is present and accounted for with an apparent rejuvenated energy behind it.
After leaving Meth Beach, the recording space they've used for the last eight years, the band built a new studio from the ground up within an old silversmith mill...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-10-02
★★★★★
"I don't ever want to go back to the old days," sings Dr. Dog's Scott McMicken on "My Old Ways", a song off 2007's We All Belong. They're kind of ironic lyrics coming from a band that keeps scraping the bottom of a barrel of older influences--the Beach Boys, the Band, the Faces, the Dead, CSNY for good measure, Captain Beefheart in interviews. And yet, it's a fitting personal statement considering Carl Wilson's recent evaluation of another critically panned, fan-beloved outfit: Mumford & Sons...
- pitchfork.com
2013-09-30
★★★★★
All signs suggest that the dudes of Dr. Dog like where they're at. That's in part a critique of the band's imperturbable, easy breezy attitude, but it also goes a long way toward explaining the music. Early records like Toothbrush and Easy Beat took the band's groovy, psych-laden jams in a decidedly lo-fi direction, but lately the band has gravitated toward a cleaner studio approach that better accents the finer points of its live set...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-10-01
★★★★★
Dr. Dog B-RoomBy Jason SchneiderFrom the moment Wilco started breaking out of their alt-country straightjacket in the late '90s, it opened the door for bands everywhere with an Americana flavour to get weird. Philadelphia's Dr. Dog were one such act that eagerly came barging in, and after a half-dozen albums, the six-piece's sound remains a beguiling mix of folk-rock and modern alt-pop. That hasn't changed on B-Room, named after the self-constructed studio where it was laid down...
- exclaim.ca
2013-10-01
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