The ever-consistent The Rural Alberta Advantage returned earlier in the year with “Plague Dogs”, their latest single which was released via Saddle Creek/Paper Bag Records.
The track captures their trademark blend of indie folk, with a more punishing and hard hitting anthemic take on their sound that we can only imagine soaring high in the live environment.
Discussing “Plague Dogs”, guitarist/vocalist Nils Edenloff shared:
“Being a child of the 80’s the movie ‘Watership Down’ was long ago seared into my brain, and it was in 2019 that I came across one of Richard Adams’ other novels ‘Plague Dogs’. Having read ‘Watership Down’ and ‘Shardick’ when I first moved to Toronto, I found myself drawn to ‘Plague Dogs’, and found the title creeping into a song we were playing around with in early 2020.
The song doesn’t end up following the events of the novel in any way, but it underscores the specific time frame that we started to work on this song. The feelings of dread, uncertainty and isolation that I felt while reading the novel, along with the eerily similar feelings around early on in the pandemic are so tightly coupled with this song that it all feels like one for me.”
Find the music video for “Plague Dogs” available to watch below.
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