Adventurous Montreal rockers The Great Sabatini released their third full-length, Dog Years, last month on Solar Flare Records. Their sound, while rooted in heavy rock, freely takes on various genre elements from hardcore and grind bombast to unplugged intricacies, and their latest video, for the song “Akela” from the new record, proves no less individualized. It’s quite individual, as it happens.

As in, four individual screens. In “Akela,” we see the four members of The Great Sabatini — Joey, Steve, Rob and Sean, all who’ve donned the last name Sabatini — more or less going about their day. They play video games, shave their hair, check their email, and yes, play the song itself, each one moving into and out of a stationary shot. It’s a creative take on the traditional rock video, and if you’d like an immediate contrast, visually and aurally, look no further than their corresponding “Guest of Honor” clip, which surfaced back in may in advance of the Dog Years release.

Enjoy:

The Great Sabatini, “Akela” official video

Dog Years is The Great Sabatini’s third full length album. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Sean Pearson (Cursed, Shallow North Dakota), and uses a raw, un-polished approach to capture a band with years of accumulated experience touring, writing and recording together. The aim was to create a hi fi document with all of their lo fi sensibilities, grit and live energy intact.

With the songs, the band strives to bring more focus and muscularity to their ideas… to reign in their use of musical devices and create a series of pieces that each expressed some facet of their sonic personality as a band, without wasting too much time, or bogging down the compositions with too many needless bells and whistles.

Each song has a different story to tell, musically and lyrically, so the band hopes to leave listeners with a diverse set of tunes that reveal nuances inside the noise and grime with each listen.

Having said that, the weight of every riff, the conviction behind every note, is the thread used to sew it all together. Every tune should represent the balance of precision playing and sonic pummel which they strive for. They want to move people. Not just the heshers who worship the almighty riff, but the folks out there with ears tuned to different marriages of sound.

The Great Sabatini on Thee Facebooks

Solar Flare Records

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