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Peace

(Love Earth Music

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A long-running experimental noise unit led by Steve Davis and featuring Lob Instagon, +DOG+ craft a subtle and textural set of eighteen lo-fi electroacoustic improvisations recorded in Massachusetts, California, and Rhode Island, blending electronics, field recordings, and minimalist structures with a calm, intimate, and exploratory aesthetic.

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Label: Love Earth Music
Catalog ID: LEM-354
Squidco Product Code: 35888

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded in Sudbury MA, Los Angeles CA, and Providence RI 2023-2024.

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+DOG+, a long-standing experimental noise ensemble formed in Osaka and now rooted in Sudbury, MA, continue their deep sonic investigations on Peace, released May 21, 2024 on Love Earth Music. Recorded between 2023-2024 across Sudbury MA, Los Angeles CA, and Providence RI, the album captures the quartet's signature blend of live electronics and textural abstraction.

Spanning eighteen tracks — including "How To Tie My Shoes," "Willis Lake 2," "Stearns Mill Pond," and a bonus piece titled "Benefit"-Peace traverses intimate field recordings and pulsating electronic gestures. Opening with sector-like lo-fi ambience, it moves through minimalist interludes, melodic fragments, and abstract noise sculptures. The live bonus track "Benefit" offers a near‑ten‑minute immersion in the band's evolving collective interplay.

Featuring Steve Davis (electronics) alongside Lob Instagon and three additional +DOG+ members (Edward, Mackenzie, Chuck, Bobby, Jack), Peace continues the group's legacy of exploratory improvisation and lo-fi electroacoustic collage.

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Steve Davis, aka S. Standfish Davis. +DOG+ has been a central project of Steve Davis' Love Earth Music label, the noise project formed 1990 in Osaka, later in Massachusetts (and, for a time, Southern California) since 1997.

Davis is a member of the groups +DOG+, Blue, Dogshit, Expando Brain, Intensive Studies, Le Chien Nu, Shit Brothers, and Reality Challenged.

7/15/2025

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Track Listing:

1. To Start Our New Life 1:18

2. The Glow From The City 6:58

3. A Thousand Days 2:02

4. Another Star In The Sky 3:19

5. Nowhere & Everywhere 2 1:00

6. Storyville Memories 3:32

7. I Have To Be Strong & Brave Now 2:29

8. Togus Pond 2 4:41

9. How To Tie My Shoes 2:06

10. Willis Lake 2 7:02

11. Stearns Mill Pond 1:00

12. Goodbye Fairbank School 4:00

13. Goodbye Flagstaff Maine 1:00

14. The Train Home 2:01

15. Here We Are 2 3:25

16. Old Home Days 5:06

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