Album Notes

The Golden Dogs are known for their intense live shows which have been blowing peoples’ minds and drenching crowds in sweat all across Canada. \"That\'s really what it\'s all about for us as a band. It\'s about that energy exchange between us and the audience. It\'s like a ritual. That feeling affects everything we do.\" The result is Big Eye Little Eye, an album of knife\'s-edge pop that flies off the disc with melodic precision and the bleary passion of a drunken rage.

Formed in 1999 by songwriter David Azzolini and now wife Jessica Grassia, The Golden Dogs began as a long distance relationship. Azzolini moved to Toronto to start a band and Grassia would drop in on her breaks from university to collaborate. Azzolini recalls, \"Pretty soon we had recorded two EP\'s.\" (These would be combined to become debut 2002 album Everything in 3 Parts). Following the release of their debut, the band toured off and on with a litany of different drummers and bass players, only firming up the current line-up of Azzolini on guitar/vocals, Grassia on keys/vocals, Taylor Knox on drums, Neil Quin on guitar and Stew Heyduk on bass in the first months of 2006.

The band has had two sold out tours of Canada since solidifying the line up, also playing two consecutive South by Southwest Music Festivals (where their renowned live show garnered the praise of New York Times pop music critic Jon Pareles). Despite their near nonexistent tour history in the States, Everything in 3 Parts received shocking success on American college radio reaching #20 on the CMJ charts in January of 2006. The Dogs are also a video favorite on MuchMusic and MTV Canada. A headlining spot at the influential Canadian Music Week and a showcase at Berlin\'s renowned Popkomm Festival rounded out an amazing year for a band barely out of its nascency. In 2007, with the release of Big Eye Little Eye, these Canadian firebrands are primed, pumped and ready to carve a smoldering swath across the United States, converting nonbelievers in smoky clubs and dive bars from Boston to L.A.

Recorded in three weeks, Big Eye Little Eye is muscular and intense much like a live Golden Dogs gig. \"I wanted the feeling we have playing live to come through on the album but I also took a lot of time to make sure that we had the arrangements down,\" says Azzolini. \"I feel like we achieved it but I want to capture that vibe even more in the future.\" The songs themselves bristle with nervous energy and an emotional tautness seldom seen in today\'s pop music lexicon.

\"Somewhere amidst the mansion of pop music built by the likes of Supergrass, Super Furry Animals and early Wings lie the lovely Golden Dogs.\" - Jay Ferguson, Sloan

Yahoo! calls The Golden Dogs\' \"Big Eye Little Eye\" a \"nearly perfect distillations of rock \'n\' roll effervescence\"

Bloggers agree - The Golden Dogs rock!

\"Why this band hasn\'t blown up over here yet is a mystery to me.\" - bumpershine.com

\"These guys are going places. Look for them.\" - akujunkan.livejournal.com

\"I was blown away by the energy and amazing music this five-piece played.” -popwreck.blogspot.com

\"Their live shows are incredible and wildly energetic.\" - aperfectparabola.blogspot.com

ON TOUR WITH SLOAN AND THE ELECTRIC SIX THIS FALL!!!!