Dog In The Snow Announces new album "Consume Me"

A bright Apocalypse. The lyrical inspiration for Consume Me hit me quickly during a long moment of tour van silence when on the US tour as session player in Fear Of Men last year. I remember travelling down the west coast, feeling as detached from everything as ever; passing the largest California slaughterhouse and ranch, the burning factories at night. I was an anywhere-observer, likening everything to an apocalyptic vision, but in the most perversely paradisal and non-cynical way I could.

There is huge warmth to this LP though despite being steeped in fragmented explorations of the self and world, and finding where and how we can fit in. There are beds of warm synths, large hall reverbs for guitar; mixed in with drum- machine beats and jagged phase distortion as grit. It was the first time I wasn't afraid of re-introducing the same sounds into different songs, cohesion and minimalism, so my lyrical ideas could come through and hold meanings longer. Repeated song-titles that show up in other songs also played a part in creating an album more cyclical as opposed to linear.

My first question is a direct rhetoric question about the sea. Will I ever see the sea again? I think of this in the perspective of a Child of the over-consuming generation. On tour, every motel, hotel room, breakfast room had a TV that showed me nothing I wanted to see. What I really wanted to see was the all-encompassing sea, but instead I'm presented with the ever- growing land of trash floating in the middle of the sea.

So I don't feel the Safety of my parents' generation, I feel atheistic and shunned but also stunned by the extent of our consumption. And what does that do to my identity? A mixed race child with the Blood of countries that have confused me with their profound and unnecessary nationalism. I'd like to hold a Mirror up to the world as it slips further away from what I'd like it to be. I remember the Magic and opportunity I once felt from the world as a child, but now as crises turn to Face Me I hold less of a sense of self and would sometimes love for the world to wake up and just swallow us whole, in a moment of bright apocalypse. In the meantime though, I'm Still Here, we're still here, hopefully always searching for the realness of being. Here is Consume Me.

Dog In The Snow finds inspiration in the juxtapositions: the warm project title goes hand-in-hand with the grim ending of Kafka's The Trial. Inspired by the dark underbelly of Scott Walker, the mortal anxieties of Sufjan Stevens, the glistening soundscapes of Susumu Yokota, Helen also finds influence from her own experience of being mixed race and a foreigner to her homelands, whilst exploring self-identity in its culture and ideas.