Crooked House
Tulsa rock quartet Dachshund has never quite fit alongside their local peers. In a scene dominated by jazz, roots-rock, blues, and country, they pursue a less-trodden path, fusing the grooves of progressive-rock and new-wave to the hooks of classic '60s pop and the '90s underground. While their 2011 debut found them wearing their influences more-or-less on their sleeves, their 2016 follow-up, "Crooked House," finds them moving into territory more distinctively their own.
"Crooked House" is a strikingly atmospheric album, lush with shimmering reverb and sparkling layers of guitar. And yet, it vibrates with the visceral presence of a live performance. While the band has polished-up its recording-skills since 2011, the production-aesthetic here is strongly in service to the songs themselves; rather than indulge in too much studio-trickery, the band opts for a naturalistic approach that's just slightly more idealized than a straight-up live-in-studio recording.
Songwriters Ryan Dannar and Eric Hartley each