At Home, Dog Unit’s debut album, is more than a collection of instrumental rock songs; it’s a suite of music precision-engineered for a single sitting

At Home, Dog Unit’s debut album, is more than just a collection of individually wound super-melodic instrumental rock songs; it’s a suite of music precision-engineered for a single sitting.
World creation has been the band’s MO since their inception in 2019, writing and performing music designed to arc over the course of an uninterrupted hour, with the four Londoners’ musical idiosyncrasies combining for just the right recipe: Henry Scowcroft and Sam Walton on guitars that alternate between howling feedback and poised melodicism, James Weaver, a pop-dub bass maestro whose minimalist style reveals a genius for conciseness, and motorik drummer Lucy Jamieson, the most reliable timekeeper this side of an atomic clock. Together, there’s a sense that this isn’t four musicians, but a 16-limbed crea