Dog Eat Dog

Brand New Breed

MEtAlvillE Nineties rap-rock C-listers’ unneccessary return.

Hats off to Dog Eat Dog for making a comeback record that nobody asked for. Brand New Breed, a compilation of two gigonly EPs, arrives 13 years after the New Jersey band’s last album, Wanted, and 25 years after their flash-in-the panpopular debut All Boro Kings.

Their Beastie Boys-in-clownshoes shtick hasn’t aged well, which is saying something given it was pretty ropey first time around. The arthiritic rap-rock of XXV and the anaemic, islandhopping dub of Lumpy Dog fizz with all the urban cred of a BBC newsreaders’ conference, while Emoji Baby’s brass-assisted punk honks in every sense of the term.

In its favour, Brand New Breed is mercifully short at eight tracks. They could have made it even shorter by cutting the risible acoustic versions of 90s ‘hits’ Isms and Rocky. Or just done everyone a solid and not bothered at all.