Dongs of Sevotion by Smog

Dongs of Sevotion, the eighth Smog album, came out in April 2000 through Domino in Europe and Drag City in North America, and the title alone, a cheeky spoonerism of "Songs of Devotion", tells you Bill Callahan's deadpan is fully intact. Callahan, the man behind the Smog name, produced it himself, a long way from the four-track tapes he started out making at home, though that lo-fi instinct for space and hush still hangs over everything.

His voice moves at a crawl, dry as dust and twice as funny, and the arrangements never crowd it. "Dress Sexy at My Funeral" is the prize, and its title gives a fair idea of the mood: morbid, wry and oddly tender all at once. The album made it to number 28 on the UK independent chart.

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