Sus Dog

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Sus Dog
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Studio album by
Released26 May 2023
Genre Electronica
Art pop
Length45:19
Label Throttle Records
Clark chronology
Playground In A Lake
(2021)
Sus Dog
(2023)

Sus Dog is an album by electronic musician Clark, released on 26 May 2023 by Throttle Records. [1] [2] It marked his first album to predominately feature his own vocals, [3] with guest features by Anika and Thom Yorke, who also served as executive producer.

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Damien Morris of The Guardian gave the album four out of five stars, stating it "creates songs you'll replay because you can't get their comforting weirdness anywhere else." [4] Harry Tafoya at Pitchfork described it as "warm and gratifying, offering the veteran electronic musician’s fragile falsetto as a graceful counterpoint to his intricate production." [3] Paul Attard of Slant Magazine was more critical, stating the album's techniques "rarely finds a means of organically incorporating them into the IDM veteran's bass-heavy sound." [5]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78/100 [6]
Review scores
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Pitchfork Media 7.7/10 [3]
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Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Alyosha"4:38
2."Town Crank"3:39
3."Sus Dog (with Anika)"4:36
4."Clutch Pearlers"4:47
5."Over Empty Streets"1:49
6."Wedding"3:11
7."Forest"2:51
8."Dolgoch Tape"2:39
9."Bully"4:43
10."Dismissive"4:17
11."Medicine (with Thom Yorke)"5:11
12."Ladder"2:58

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References

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