Nina Nastasia - Dogs album download

Dogs is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia. It was originally released in 2000 by the New York City-based independent label Socialist Records, and re-released in 2004 by Touch and Go Records

Nina Nastasia was born in Hollywood, California and is of Calabrian and Irish descent. She began writing songs in 1993, and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her apartment. Nastasia sold them at her shows, quickly selling all of them. By the end of the year 2000, the album was out of print. Famed DJ John Peel took notice of the album (calling it "astonishing") after having been given a copy by Steve Albini.

On Dogs, Nina Nastasia sings about dogs, as a symbol of the pursuit of love, or a metaphor for the easy life, but also as a colloquialism- "your dogs are tired," on "The Long Walk"- or to set up, by way of the cat/dog dichotomy, a clever pun, when Nastasia admits that "curiosity kills m. She also makes a musical pun when the cello quotes the "give a dog a bone" line of "This Old Man".

Nina Nastasia 's first outing is a captivating, melancholic affair of precision and emotional clamor and stands as a fantastic sibling to her essential sophomore album, The Blackened Air. Dogs has a calming atmosphere, occasionally flirting with dissonance, and stands as a remarkable work of minimal building by repetition to support Nastasia 's pitch-perfect voice.

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A Dog's Life" Track Info.

Nina Nastasia: 'Dogs' Singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia talks about her cult-classic album, Dogs. The CD is being re-issued Tuesday on Touch & Go Records. Dogs sold well when it was first released five years ago, but quickly went out of print. Hear two full-length cuts from the CD. Nina Nastasia: 'Dogs'. Courtesy Touch & Go Records. Singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia talks about her cult-classic album, Dogs. From Nina Nastasia's 'Dogs'.