Jon Singer Posts

My kids are huge fans of the Swiss claymation cartoon Pingu. The program, about Penguins, is set in Antarctica where the Penguin families all live in igloos. What has made this show such an International success is the absence of human language. The dialogue between characters is a honking high-pitched penguin squawk that allows children of different linguistic backgrounds to follow the story, laughing outrageously along the way.



I've been listening to Heroic Doses' self titled debut quite a bit as of late and I can't help but notice the similarities between Bill Dolan's utterly unique, jaw dropping guitar shredding and the call and response banter between Pingu and his cohorts. On this Heroic Doses track I always imagine a claymation music video with Pingu cavorting away in his frozen tundra while an impish little Bill Dolan teeters out if his igloo blasting away on a Gibson SG.

Heroic Doses