Matt Mays - Dog City (2020) Hi Res

Some philosophical topics freedom, unity, love are hard to break down and understand through conventional means. Few of us are Socrates, after all. Matt Mays - Canada's answer to Tom Petty - tackled all these huge ideas in a different way on his surprise album Dog City: It's written from the eyes of a rescue dog. As corny as that sounds, it really isn't. It's too self-aware and heartwarming to make you cringe. Rather, Dog City sees Mays at his most experimental.

Recorded and mixed by Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Mays during quarantine, Dog City is a 13-track concept album written through the eyes of a rescue dog. The songs are about pure freedom, love, contentment, companionship and all the stuff in between.

I wrote every note and lyric over the last 6 weeks in confinement in my cold garage and a few other empty spaces (except for the Stooges cover). I laughed a lot and cried a lot. It’s been an emotional time obviously and I needed to get away from the news. It was more Important to me to get it out RIGHT NOW -so It’s scrappy, Barely mixed, not mastered and not even on a label.