Dogstar, the LA-based trio of guitarist and vocalist Bret Domrose, drummer Robert Mailhouse, and bassist Keanu Reeves, have announced their fourth studio album “All In Now“, due 29th May via their own Dillon Street Records.
The band’s 2023 comeback album “Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees” re-established them as a working band with something real to say. “All In Now” looks to push further. The title track, already out, is crunchier and more direct than anything on its predecessor, leaning into a muscular alt-rock groove with a desert rock edge that owes more to Queens of the Stone Age than post-grunge nostalgia.
“‘All In Now’ just whacks you in the head,” Mailhouse shares, “talk about a live song. Keanu came up with the title for that song too, and it sort of summed up where and who we are as a band today. It just feels true to us. We’re leaning in, and we are going to keep going.” “And this is a good song to lean into” Reeves adds, “so, we really are all in now.”
The person most responsible for that evolution might be producer Nick Launay, the man who has shaped records for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, IDLES, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Amyl and the Sniffers.
Those 2023 European festival runs, playing to audiences who hadn’t come to see Dogstar and stayed anyway, clearly got into the band’s bloodstream. They came back to the studio not to prove something, but because they weren’t finished.
The album is accompanied by a UK and European tour that includes appearances at Download Festival, Pink Pop, Rock Werchter, Mad Cool, Tons of Rock, NOS Alive, and Tinderbox Festival.
“All In Now” is out 29th May on Dillon Street Records.
