Intense Records

Sus Dog

£20.83 (£24.99 incl. VAT)

For years Clark’s best work has toggled between beauty and brutality, blistering noise 
and otherworldly calm. Sus Dog is also situated between those two poles, but in 
leveraging his voice like this, Clark has discovered not only a new way to guide 
listeners through his maze-like producKon, but also of expressing the strain of 
navigaKng such wild terrain” – Pitchfork 
This is Chris Clark’s tenth studio album released in May 2023, the electronic arKst 
choosing to marry his signature volaKle, pin-sharp producKon to the introducKon of 
his own emoKve vocals. Challenging himself to fantasise what a record might sound 
like “if the Beach Boys took MDMA and made a rave record” Clark looked to Thom 
Yorke to assist in an execuKve producKon role, an ideal companion considering 
Yorke’s most recent flights to the world of immersive electronica. 
There’s also plenty of occasions where the composiKons lean towards cinemaKc 
soundscapes parKcularly on the unnerving distorKon of ‘Forest’. However unlike on 
his ‘Growl Garden’ EP where vocals were used in a more chilling and dystopian role, 
those on the likes of ‘Dolgoch Tape’ are far more reverenKal and tender, closer to the 
spellbound serenity found on a Suman Stevens LP. Vocals funnelled into textures 
rather than dominant leads. 

HighlighKng the album’s contrasts and bonds between human and machine The 
Guardian described it as “wandering free from structure, deploying sunbursts of 
synths and metallic percussion, nailing melodies into your primiKve brain.” 
The album received excellent radio support in the UK at BBC R6 with A lisKng for the 
tracks ‘Town Crank’ & ‘Clutch Pearlers’; in the US there were plays from KEXP & 
KCRW. 
You can read an interview with Chris Clark on the making of this album in DJ 
magazine here: 

Vinyl tracklist: 
A1) Alyosha A2) Town Crank A3) Sus Dog B1) Clutch Pearlers B2) Over Empty Streets 
B3) Wedding C1) Forest C2) Dolgoch Tape C3) Bully D1) Dismissive D2) Medicine (feat. 
Thom Yorke) D3) Ladder