We recently featured provocative trio, The Qwarks, as they spoke their minds on You Are Not Fans (You Are Our Friends), so we were thrilled to hear that they just released their brand new single and video, Dog Ate My Homework.
Setting the tone with a Brit-pop vibe, The Qwarks open Dog Ate My Homework with the narrative-driven and conceptual lyrics, “It was a big surprise, to be rolling down the stairs, was the camera on, shared with everyone, but no one really cares…”
The song expands with psychedelic guitar detailing to deliver more cerebral mayhem from The Qwarks. Elaborating on the track, The Qwarks confess, “The song emerged in a magical garden of feral cats and floral wonders, under a full moon and starry skies. [It] is a stream of consciousness, the words poured out in a ten-minute reverie in a whirl wind of British garden-based psychedelia offering driving riffs and big choruses with pop sensibilities.”
We love the psychological nuance that The Qwarks bring to life as they comment on the human condition, questioning whether anyone really cares with their infectious hooks and high concept commentary on fame and reality.
Dog Ate My Homework is the second single The Qwarks have released from their forthcoming second album out this Autumn.
The story of the song is mysterious and full of symbolism, open to interpretation as “sometimes songs emerge from a mystical ether where the song is already written and the writer is simply a vessel for it to touch down”.
Vocalist and guitarist Phil Johnstone believes that the song was delivered to him in the garden by an unknowable mysterious source, so it is clear that he is channelling the universe.
The single again sees The Qwarks collaborate with film maker Stuart Macleod for a dog-filled extravaganza. The footage was crowd sourced from The Qwarks’ fanbase who kindly sent in footage of their dogs to contribute, and the visual sees the band deliver an epic performance dressed as our canine friends.
We have added Dog Ate My Homework to our New Music Spotlight playlist and continue streaming the wider discography of The Qwarks!