Hey Bulldog are a three-piece garage rock band from Manchester, comprisong Rob Manton (guitar/vocals), Matt Parry (bass) and Ben Howarth-Lees (drums). Early single 'Al Lupo' was a garage-psych whirlwind of a song, with driving, interesting rhythms, and great guitars, and first alerted me to the band in 2018. More singles followed, all in the same garage-y vein, until the 7-minute 'No Future (Part II)' appeared in 2019, being a fabulous extended psychedelic (mostly) instrumental piece, introducing psych, blues, and rock to the mix. It is this genre blending that makes the band stand out against a sea of often repetitive bland indie that has saturated the Manchester scene in recent years, and their last single 'Death & Greed' from a year ago is their heaviest song to date. The band now have enough material for an album, and there were plans for one to be recorded last year, so while we wait for that, here's the album they could have released a year ago.
Track listing
01 Al Lupo
02 Divide And Conquer
03 Under My Spell
04 Makin' Friends Not Millionaires
05 Numb
06 Stranger
07 No Future (Part II)
08 California
09 Death & Greed
