Dug Pinnick - "Emotional Animal" Review

Artist/ Band: Dug Pinnick
Title: Emotional Animal
Label: Magna Carta
Year of Release: 2005
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The Review:

Dug (Doug) Pinnick, is mostly know for being in the band King's X, but has released his first self named solo album. He has recorded two other albums under the Poundhound moniker. Since I’m not familiar with that output, I can’t make any comparisons but I do have a somewhat limited exposure to King’s X as well as the other band members solo projects to make some comparative comments. One thing that I noticed is his re-spelling or shall I say his “personalizing” of his first name, now known as Dug.

Dug’s 2005 album "Emotional Animal" is 15 tracks that unfortunately covers ground he’s tread upon before. The only difference is he’s playing all the instruments himself aside from the drums, played by Joy Gaskill, so it’s all Dug this time. Dug's singing and bass playing are in top form as well as his guitar playing which surprisingly isn’t too shabby either. Musically there’s the King’s X vibe going on along with a nod to classic rock and I hear at times some grunge distorted guitar riffs as well as some funk.

I noticed that Emotional Animal has been somewhat overshadowed by King’s X’s new album Ogre Tones, which was released weeks apart. I haven’t heard the King’s X album aside from one song called Alone but hopefully Emotional Animal will get some good press and exposure. Hey it’s not often you get a band that releases an album at the same time as one of it’s members. This is without a doubt recommended for his fans as well as modern rock fans.

Reviewed by Ron Fuchs on October 11th, 2005

Tracks:

1. Crashing

2. Beautiful

3. Change

4. Bite

5. Noon

6. Missing

7. Are You Gonna Come

8. Hey Would You Know

9. Keep Up

10. Haven't Been Here Before

11. Zepp

12. Mr. Hateyourself

13. Equal Rights

14. Freak The Funk Out

15. Wrong

Bonus:

Multimedia interview & an audio CD-Rom demo track of "saturday"