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Rural Highway (After Hopper)

+DOG+ constructs sprawling, immersive noise landscapes across four extended pieces that juxtapose dense textural layering, dynamic distortion, and live improvisational intensity with shifting durations and visceral energy, capturing both studio-crafted depth and raw performance as the MA experimental project expands the boundaries of glitch-inflected sonic exploration and immersive audiovisual abstraction.

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Personnel:

Steve Davis-composer, performer

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Label: Love Earth Music
Catalog ID: LEM-393
Squidco Product Code: 37176

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Tracks 1 and 2 recorded in Sudbury, MA, in 2025.

Track 3 recorded live at the Firehouse, in Worcester, MA, in 2025.

Track 4 recorded live on WCUW, in Worcester, MA, in 2025.

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+DOG+'s Rural Highway (After Hopper) is a sprawling four-track experimental release from the Massachusetts noise project, issued on Love Earth Music in October 2025 and anchored in extended textural works like "Time Takes Everything Except Memories" and "Initial Singularity". Tracks one and two were crafted in Sudbury, MA earlier in 2025, while the latter pair capture raw live spontaneity-"The Long Drive Home" at The Firehouse in Worcester and "Initial Singularity" on WCUW's Music Under the Moon radio session-melding dense noise, immersive layers, and shifting dynamics that draw listeners into an evocative, exploratory sound world. Featuring sprawling durations, the album embraces glitch, ambient distortion, and improvised intensity as +DOG+ continues to push boundaries within the experimental/noise continuum.

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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.

2/11/2026

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Track Listing:

1. Time Takes Everything Except Memories 19:36

2. I Know You Would If You Could 14:46

3. The Long Drive Home 11:57

4. Initial Singularity 17:31

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