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"Dip Road Dogs are giving you the rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of their musical operation, premiering their hypnotic debut single ‘Labour Day’. For years now, the psychedelic rock genre has found itself a little bit crowded with countless bands stepping up to the plate to present their own music in that awe-inspiring vein. Despite this, we’ve managed to see quite a number of exceptional artists break through the mould and stand alone, serving as trailblazers of the genre. From the likes of The Flaming Lips to Tame Impala, there’s numerous acts out there who find their music getting into your brain and refusing to leave. Now, we can add psychedelic Americana folk rockers Dip Road Dogs to that list. Hailing from a dusty dirt track deep in the Mallee, the Dip Road Dogs have today shared their debut single, the riveting ‘Labour Day’. Built upon a glorious base of unrelenting percussion and dirty bass, delayed guitars, hazy vocals, and slick songwriting combine to

From a dusty dirt track deep in the Mallee come the Dip Road Dogs, who have today announced their dreamy, driving new single Labour Day, a thoughtful, heavy track, in the vein of Tame Impala and The Flaming Lips, out November 2. Purveyors of the finest psychedelic Americana folk rock, Dip Road Dogs have produced a killer single with Labour Day. Chugging guitars, unstoppable percussion, and hypnotic vocals will lull listeners into a grooving trance, while mesmerising strings provide an all-encompassing bed for the melodies to float upon. It’s impossible to ignore this irresistible beat. “The single was written and recorded at our studio in the middle of the Leaghur Forest in Northern Victoria and recorded in Nashville, Tennessee – funnily enough, we wrote it on Labour Day after a big weekend at Golden Plains,” explains lead vocalist Dave Chirnside. “We had the music written for almost six months but only got around to writing the lyrics for it the night before we were due to track