N8TRU Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) https://runforcoverrecords.com/collections/citizen https://runforcoverrecords.com/products/citizen-call-the-dogs-pre-order RELEASE DATE: October 6, 2023 Please Note, this item is for PRE-ORDER! All items are expected to ship in MID-OCTOBER, 2023. *Any orders containing a "Pre-Order" item will ship together when the pre-order ships. Please make a separate order if you wish to receive non pre-order items before the pre-order ship date.*. Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. UK Customers: Order this album & CItizen Merch from our UK Store by clicking here. EU Customers: Order this album from Evil Greed by clicking here. AUS/NZ Customers: Order this album from Cooking Vinyl Australia by Clicking here. For any questions about your order, please contact us here! PressingInfo: • 100 Pink, Teal & Brown Swirl Vinyl (Magic Circle Subscription Exclusive) • 900 Clear with Red Teal & Blue Splatter Vinyl / 900 (RFC Webstore Exclusive) • 1000 Black Smoke Vinyl (Citizen Tour Exclusive) • 500 White & Yellow Twister Vinyl (Newbury Comics Exclusive) • 400 Blue & Red Swirl (BrooklynVegan Exclusive) • 300 Cloudy Teal Vinyl (Vinyl Me, Please Exclusive) • 300 Pink & Orange Galaxy Swirl (Urban Outfitters Exclusive) • 300 Blue & Yellow Halves (Zia Records Exclusive) • 6200 Brown Vinyl (Check your local record store here) “On Calling The Dogs (the band’s 5th record) it truly is the most excited and energized the band has been in a really long time,” guitarist Nick Hamm says. “This album makes me feel like I'm 19 again — it’s like therapy or something. It sent a lightning bolt through everybody that worked on it. We're ready to go.” Across 11 tracks, Calling The Dogs explores a range of moods, styles and themes with each song as memorable as the last. The album’s first single, “If You’re Lonely,” is the kind of upbeat singalong anthem fans should expect to belt out at shows for years to come. Tracks like “Hyper Trophy” and “Can’t Take It Slow” show that Citizen can still put out unforgettable melodies over dance-worthy rhythms, while others (like “When I Let You Down”) lean more into timeless classics bordering on garage rock. As a whole, it’s as intense and energetic of an experience as the band has ever released. “I really wanted to hone in on how it would feel to play the songs live while writing Calling The Dogs,” Kerekes says. “The songs on the last record are so much fun to play live, I wanted to make sure that this one would still invoke the same kind of emotion and crowd reaction. I kept asking myself ‘Will this be exciting to see live? How will the energy be?’ more than I ever have before.” With all that said, the album is one of self reflection, as well as one that exercises personal demons for the members. The band’s overall willingness to confront themes that they’ve alluded to on past records – combating self-doubt, surviving and escaping familial toxicity, the development of self-awareness, and personal healing is one of the factors that makes Calling The Dogs their most poignant and cohesive body of work yet. Never one to wait too long between albums, Calling The Dogs comes on the heels of 2021’s Life in Your Glass World, an album that (despite finishing recording in early 2020) spoke particularly acutely to millions during the pandemic and helped elevate Citizen to new heights. Combined with this summer’s sold-out celebrations (aka shows) for a decade of their debut, Youth, everyone involved is absolutely ready to explore what the next act holds. That’s why Citizen sees Calling The Dogs as an incredible rebirth. They’re fully hitting their stride as the leaders of the post-COVID rock resurgence, and they’re in the uncommon place of being able to look back at their success and ahead at what’s to come at the same time. Citizen has the experience and wisdom of a longstanding act alongside the energy and hunger of a young band on the rise, as evidenced by the fact that most artists don’t get to go on an anniversary tour for their breakthrough album while still under the age of 30. “We’ve been playing in bands together since we were like 10 or 11 years old, so we have a system that I don’t think anyone else would really understand,” Kerekes says. “There were definitely some tensions in the studio when we were younger, because everyone wants to be right and nobody wants to see their ideas thrown out. But now, the three of us know exactly what to do and nobody’s feelings get hurt, so it really makes Citizen a well-oiled machine.” “The spirit of Citizen is just turning everything we do up to 11 and elevating it creatively as much as possible — and it feels like we can really come out guns blazing now,” Hamm says. “Every Citizen album explores different avenues we want to explore, and I think they always will. Calling The Dogs is the closest we’ve sounded to what I hear Citizen sounding like in my head, but that’s not a stopping point. It aligns with everything we want to do and everything we want to say right now, but that’s always evolving.” Despite adding two new voices to the creative process this time around, Kerekes and the Hamms are so comfortable with each other that they’re well beyond any ego battles or other flare-ups and truly reaching new heights as both writers and performers. The three founding members have been playing music together for over half of their lives at this point, creating a “magic” bond that can’t be replicated and allowing Citizen to fully commit to everything they want to do. With the ability to excel in both quiet ballads and distorted rock anthems, Citizen (which recently expanded to a full quintet with the addition of former touring members drummer Ben Russin and guitarist Mason Mercer) has an incredible knack for channeling raw emotion into singalong songs. On Calling The Dogs, the band exemplifies that passionate songwriting and styling while stripping back to what they do best: guitar-driven rock ‘n roll. Picking up labels ranging from post-hardcore to shoegaze over the years, it’s reductive to try to categorize Citizen as anything other than one of the best rock bands around today. Evolving from teenagers playing local dives to a vibrant band capable of selling out theaters and hitting major festivals around the world, vocalist Mat Kerekes, guitarist Nick Hamm, bassist Eric Hamm, guitarist Mason Mercer, and drummer Ben Russin have earned their reputation as both tremendous songwriters and a must-see live act — and they do both better than ever on their new album, Calling The Dogs. Edited October 7, 2023 by N8TRU Justinadamk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc32137 Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 PO is now live. Pressing Info: • 100 Pink, Teal & Brown Swirl Vinyl (Magic Circle Subscription Exclusive) • 900 Clear with Red Teal & Blue Splatter Vinyl / 900 (RFC Webstore Exclusive) • 1000 Black Smoke Vinyl (Citizen Tour Exclusive) • 500 White & Yellow Twister Vinyl (Newbury Comics Exclusive) • 400 Blue & Red Swirl (BrooklynVegan Exclusive) • 300 Cloudy Teal Vinyl (Vinyl Me, Please Exclusive) • 300 Pink & Orange Galaxy Swirl (Urban Outfitters Exclusive) • 300 Blue & Yellow Halves (Zia Records Exclusive) • 6200 Brown Vinyl (Check your local record store here) N8TRU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVHX Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 i love that labels are doing these variant overviews more often. helps so much for choosing which copy to buy. N8TRU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWindBlower Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Went with the BV variant. New track is very solid, but in some ways, feels like an improvement on his solo work instead of a Citizen track to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daiei Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Going to wait for Newbury...always try to match color schemes of cover art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xfactor675 Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 24 minutes ago, Daiei said: Going to wait for Newbury...always try to match color schemes of cover art. Don't support their overpricing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daiei Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Color schemes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVHX Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 newbury copy seems to be signed by the band for $29.99. https://www.newburycomics.com/collections/exclusive-vinyl/products/calling-the-dogs-exclusive-lp-autographed?variant=42325804318900 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokimedo Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 wondering why UO hasnt posted their variant yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVHX Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 2 hours ago, tokimedo said: wondering why UO hasnt posted their variant yet im waiting for that one too. like that the variant looks like the fire on the album art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokimedo Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 On 7/26/2023 at 10:36 PM, CVHX said: im waiting for that one too. like that the variant looks like the fire on the album art ive got them all PO'd outside of the band exclusive (assuming this will be on the tour), the UO and the magic circle. but id love to stop checking UO daily in the meantime 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokimedo Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 UO is up https://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shop/citizen-calling-the-dogs-limited-lp CVHX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daiei Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Finally. Best variant by far. Get to cancel VMP variant too, expensive af with their $9 shipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daiei Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Well the UO variant came out like shit: N8TRU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N8TRU Posted October 7, 2023 Author Share Posted October 7, 2023 I hope BrooklynVegan turns out better. Just like Fiddlehead, no idea when it's shipping. I can't help but wonder what's going on internally with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Hah thats not even close! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Record is not bad, it's maybe #3 for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daiei Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said: Record is not bad, it's maybe #3 for me? I love me some Citizen but this is forgettable for me. Sounds like a highschool band wrote this record. All the same sounding...lifeless with no inspiration like they whipped it up in a day. For me this was basically a poor man's version of Life In Your Glass World. I don't really like their fast paced party songs where it sounds like Mat is half talking/yelling rather than singing. Give me an entire album of How Does It Feel/Flower Child vibes. Edited October 7, 2023 by Daiei N8TRU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokimedo Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 i personally love the record. its refined citizen for sure. the best looking variant so far is the RFC store splatter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xfactor675 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Citizen is always a hit or miss for me, this new one is surprisingly good. Might order down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N8TRU Posted October 7, 2023 Author Share Posted October 7, 2023 It's probably my least favorite. I saw them on the LIYGW headline tour and they seemed so tired and burned out. The 2 new members were full of energy, the originals looked dead. I left early which is coming from someone who has gone to see them for every album since Youth. This album feels pretty lifeless and cookie cutter to me. No standout songs or moments, just going through the motions. I hope they know it's okay to take a break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 I mean, youth is their only album that bangs start to end, they haven't been close since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokimedo Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 heads up the newbury is only signed by mat, nobody else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N8TRU Posted October 19, 2023 Author Share Posted October 19, 2023 6 minutes ago, tokimedo said: heads up the newbury is only signed by mat, nobody else. I saw that recently. Someone was pretty blindsided about it. Do we know why/what happened? Unless it was always advertised as such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daiei Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 On 10/8/2023 at 5:22 AM, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said: I mean, youth is their only album that bangs start to end, they haven't been close since. I thought As You Please was a very solid release, 10/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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