Sex & Drugs - A Giant Dog

Sex & Drugs - A Giant Dog

2:16

Pile, 2016

Written by Sabrina Ellis and Andrew Cashen

"I can't even remember being young," Sabrina Ellis wails on this song.  It's a punk anthem about living fast and hoping you last.  "All the hearts that we broke / And all the liquor and coke / All the weed that we smoked / We were so hungry and broke."  Fun Kinks-style guitars, anthemic vocals, and a pulse-pounding, bouncing, almost vaudeville piano line over thumping bass.  It's short, swift, and energetic.

Jizzney - A Giant Dog

Jizzney - A Giant Dog

3:16

Pile, 2016

Written by A Giant Dog?

Singer Sabrina Ellis, of this Austin-based band, has a great rock voice, and blended with the male voice it really elevates this song.  Sloppy post-punk pop, clanging along with triumphant major chords, belying the dour nature of the lyrics, about a former or perhaps only perceived lover who isn't around.  In fact, they're out with someone else!  I dig the irreverent humor: "Some people that I know / Are gonna track him down / And run him out."  But it's also nostalgic, and melancholy in its way, thinking back to a better moment in time.