The Daily Spin, March 26
Sidney Gish | No Dogs Allowed
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
Each album will be given a rating on a scale from 0 to 10. You can look at the entire set here. Additionally, you can check out a list of my favorite song from each album right here.
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Album: No Dogs Allowed (2017)
Artist: Sidney Gish
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Sidney Gish made this album when she was 20, a student at Boston’s Northeastern University.
That doesn’t really have any super evident ties to No Dogs Allowed, but I wanted to make note of it, because it’s evidence that she is an incredibly talented producer in her own right, someone well-worth watching for the future.
Somewhere between Hop Along and Regina Spektor, this is an incredibly introspective album, one that leaves aching feelings of youth and the transition into adulthood mixing with the enduring self-deprecation of a young adult in the modern world. Plucky guitars come together in incredibly endearing fashion - and in a lot of ways, this feels like someone picking away at tunes in their dorm room in between papers, procrastinating while they dream of a different life.
It’s beautifully orchestrated, a delightful insight into the mind of someone contending with the frightful reality of existence with the charm of someone not quite ready to give up the hope that we all once held.
Rating: 8.4/10
Best Tracks: Persephone; Rat of the City
Worst Tracks: Good Magicians