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No Dogs Allowed

by Sidney Gish

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roundestrow1et No Dogs Allowed is one of those albums i knew i was going to adore the moment i started it. it's one of my all-time-favorites to this day, and it's been FOUR years since i listened to it for the first time... it kept me sane late into lockdown, and it did a great job. incredible sounds, incredible songwriting! Favorite track: Sin Triangle.
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jackgreer One of the finest albums that features the MS Paint toolbar on the cover Favorite track: Impostor Syndrome.
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Quinn Centennial I was listening to WCDB (Albany, NY) in 2019 when they played “Sophisticated Space” and I had to Google the lyrics before the song slipped from my brain. (I didn’t have Shazam yet.) I’ve been on the Gish hook ever since.

There’s so much packed into this album that rewards multiple listens: delicately balanced harmonies, slow-burn lyrical comedy, understated but cutting emotional resonance, and a palette of guitar and synth tones to rival 2000s Kevin Barnes. Favorite track: Sophisticated Space.
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Sin Triangle 04:28
Got to work on my brain then, Crawling back to my grave and, I'm certain that I'm gonna die this time No doubt is left inside my mind tonight so im just gonna wait for nausea to set in, I’m peacing out at eleven, The friendly girls are trying to comfort me As if I’m a depressed chick at a frat party Two faced bitches never lie and therefore I never lie Diagram this sin triangle for me tonight because I don't know what to say A sickness by another name Wouldn't be sweet either but With luck, it would at least look much more tame I’ve got to work on my face now, I’m wearing shades when it's dark out but don’t you worry I'm just being cool, Like everybody else around this school, And maybe I wanna see him, but then again I'm an isolationist And on an accident, I'm like Japan Before they went and traded stuff to other lands Two faced bitches never lie Therefore I never lie Diagram this sin triangle: but the biblical kind and not sine, I don't know what to say A sickness by another name Wouldn't be sweet either but With luck, it would at least, like, not suck with luck it would at like not suck some bitches never lie therefore i never lie Diagram this sin triangle: but the biblical kind and not sine, I don't know what to say A sickness by another name Wouldn't be sweet either but With luck, it would at least look much more tame wouldn’t be sweet either but with luck it would at least look much more tame
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flying around a corner scrutinizing all the screens that you’re on, well naturally i want to know your secret you figured out a something that you are now expressing through manipulation of a master degree just with sleight of hand you U make MAKE the whole room vanish yeah i study good magicians twentieth paragraph i’m trying to entertain a deeper understanding of whatever it is you’re on an absolute basket case in unassuming basket casing i think this late in life i want to learn to do the same if i tried to do the same tricks, i would end up with trix cereal’s mascot suffocated in a hat and half a torso cut in half from messing the box routine up bad. that, the rabbit - and a non-comedic lawsuit on top of that just with sleight of hand you U make MAKE the whole room vanish yeah i study good magicians take my greatest fear make it disappear yeah i study good magicians
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what a sophisticated space what a well educated population what socialite would go donate what it takes to own this place for 60 days in a sophisticated congregation there’s a collection of a space that puts on banquets that i have vice-reported on from the balcony and the wall the worst permission slip you can imagine wouldn’t gain entrance to anything other than who would dole out all the tickets to imagine that don’t go to anything at all good luck ever knowing yourself you’re sitting in a room and speaking well reporting on the temperature fake-deep, non-eloquently, every hour? lost deep inside the MFA ten mental breakdowns we are navigating i think in all regards i’ve found a welcome home amongst the people made of stone now if you wait in between what did you say man and what did you mean? whatever it’s just good etiquette to sink the model ships a model pirate and a model wave two varieties, oceanic and friendly if the news is really great now if you really think the time is running out to say all the great things you thought of today you’re more than right, you are englightened, knowing that your place is never to fill anything at all let alone space good luck summationed in a place like this taking ok care of myself scan the spiral stairs teleport back to the middle of the room i can’t give my mind back but i can try to take it back to me take it back to scanning the spiral stairs and teleporting back into the middle of the room i can’t give my my mind back but i can try to take it back and i can try to make it work too take it back to me
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at least i can advance through peacetime in a trance bad days too i’ve no restrictions on the mood just the degree of effort - usage of the brain, process phantom pain eye strain too, the strength of which should be profuse and add to the collective hurt so what practical matters must i settle first, what practical matters must be put down, which ones to shoot with tranquilizers, leave them falling on the ground and made into a bearskin rug but get this, the bearskin is a list and i’m too distracted to go explaining this so i’ll just canon stamp it i want to see you at night another day, another time, i can’t stand in this lit hallway anymore i want to be liked and despite a past of bad ideas and advice, i sit still and wonder why I ever tried to think that you were any different
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i wanna write a book and put it in your mailbox and when you go to pick it up you would send it back to amazon i wanna write a list i wanna pepper it with everything unvalidated just to see if you’ll agree with me cause that’s all fine with me toeing on the line of reality and the mud in your mind where the sidewalk ends is the only place we can be good friends i wanna circle you like a rabbit courting both my shoes for fun we just assume characters and never get confused i wanna play a song nobody in the world interprets wrong but that’s hilarious at this point everyone is caked in mud and that’s all fine with me toeing on the line of reality and the mud in your mind where the sidewalk ends is the only place we can be good friends cause that’s all fine with me toeing on the line of reality and the mud in your mind where the sidewalk ends is the only place we can be good friends we can be good friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oogCXNVKHU
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Mouth Log 02:55
on my phone, i’ve got a list of food i ate and people i kissed because of this i'm losing weight and batting my eyes like siren bait just like a hate-watched series i catalog life dearly dreary how-tos on half-assed self abuse probably when i'm 22 then i'll be doing something new, because i lose attention fast, and i get bored right off the bat, but i hate class, and i hate work and doing nothing's even worse but i still curse and complain every day if i thrive best in hate machines and shallow tabloid magazines and groups for memes, where everyone fights and tries to make straight white boys cry then will i die still swallowing all sides of conflict, possibly i’m 3 percent non-hikikomori 97 speaks and now i'm there, fuzzy socks and shampooed hair, cyst acne bare, i’m eating healthy, watching Ina cook for Jeffery i'm kinda pissed if this is the real me at least i know who i kissed and what i eat la la la
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it pains me to say but maybe i’ve grown out of it i’m a businessman i don’t waste time on any shit these sweet instincts ruin my life there’s no progress just good times bitch i’m wasted just kidding i’m high we’re gonna go to a show and then come home and then probably die it pains me to say but maybe i’ve grown out of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b8TJiU1r2Y all i want to do is sit these sweet instincts ruin my life there’s no progress just good times bitch i’m wasted just kidding i’m high we’re gonna go to a show and then come home and then probably die
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i would let solipsists plug me in the matrix rest in it, happy to think, not cut out for anything so your taste is the best like the books that you read but i’m not a lot like you when we act really blank and stand in the same places the standing’s all we do and i don’t mean to say there’s a vat for my brain but i’m not a lot like you if i’m floating alone, then the liquid’s my home and at least i’ve got the goo leaving, straight back to the wall, thinking, filtering it all just observe don’t say a word ghost town no dogs allowed upon realizing i don’t owe you a thing there’s a lazy sense of glee down the corners and streets i’m a rat of the city i’m not a lot like me rebrand as NPC, audience on TV my own latchkey kid i’ll be if i’m floating alone, then the liquid’s my home and at least i’ve got saline i don’t know who i am i don’t know what to do but i’m not a lot like you i don’t know who i am i don’t know what to do but i’m not a lot like you i don’t know who i am i don’t know what to do but i’m not a lot like you i don’t know who i am i don’t know what to do but i’m not a lot like you
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you don’t come around here like you’re supposed to do i;m sitting around here waiting next to you i see the truth is right inside of you who could take a minute just to talk to you and walk away with everybody who could leave you too i’m right in front of you oooooooo glitter candy and perfume ooooooo bubble bath of entropy la la la la la and what a lovely day la la la la la and what a lovely feeling we - we met inside the gelateria you worked the motherfucking register reminded me it was a pizzeria i - i looked around at all the pies i cleared my throat and said “oh no. you’re right.” and then i tried to bleach my whole damn mind that night you don’t come around here like you’re sposed to do i;m sitting round here waiting next to you i see the truth is right inside of you glitter candy and perfume bubble bath of entropy and what a lovely day and what a lovely feeling careers are on the phone but i don’t care about it, but i don’t care about it bunny careers are on the phone. but i don’t care about it, not but for you bunny careers are on the phone but i don’t care about it, for a second bunny careers are on the phone. but i don’t care about it, not but for you bunny
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Persephone 03:24
I’ve called Persephone by the name purse-a-phone Greek goddesses aren’t what you grab when leaving home My phone’s inside my purse purse-a-phone would like it there, like Hades’ lair I pray greek gods don’t see me, butchering names and not believing but i’ll mispronounce and mis-accent for infinity there isn’t much that you could do to stop me six pomegranate seeds, winter in Greece please don’t visit me, Persephone and I’ve said “protestant” just like pro-test-ant too It’s not a word, let alone a church that you could send donations to who needs mistakes and stupid phrases that aren’t real anyway? if I’d a known I’d mess up this many times, then I’d shut up for the rest of my life but i’ll mispronounce and mis-accent for infinity there isn’t much that you could do to stop me six pomegranate seeds, winter in Greece please don’t visit, purse phone what if i don’t let them know that I don’t know because I don’t even know anything but i’ll mispronounce and mis-accent for infinity there isn’t much that you could do to stop me six pomegranate seeds, winter in Greece please don’t visit me, Persephenphone
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Unfortunately I am My own dog, my own fur companion my own old lady on a forum who types in glittery decorum Unfortunately I take Myself out walking every day I hand my legs to the feet and I give my head to the leash every other day i’m wondering what’s a human being gotta be like what’s a way to just be competent these sweet instincts ruin my life every other day I’m wondering was it a mistake to try and define what I’m certain’s mad incompetence these sweet instincts ruin my life I cant smell well, or tell the time. Not K through 8, nor K - 9. (For human, grossly underqualified For canine, grossly overqualified) I don’t blend in at pet smart That truth holds true at the wal mart In either case they say to me what the fuck is lost in aisle 3 every other day i’m wondering what’s a human being gotta be like what’s a way to just be competent these sweet instincts ruin my life every other day I’m wondering was it a mistake to try and define what I’m certain’s mad incompetence these sweet instincts ruin my life so just watch me, moving far away nobody even knows my name and no one suspects that I’m not fine, and nobody outs behavioral frankenstein just look at victor in LA + syd with the y; state U of A, * and all the majors at the labels- rebooting soon as i am able every other day i’m wondering what’s a human being gotta be like what’s a way to just be competent these sweet instincts ruin my life every other day I’m wondering was it a mistake to try and define what I’m certain’s mad incompetence these sweet instincts ruin my life DA DA DA DA DA DA DADADA these sweet instincts ruin my life + syd with the y; state U of A, * Syd goes to Arizona State University, not U of A... :0 !! I got them confused and had already done the vocal takes. I sing this different live as an apology
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welcome to the eleventh hour so what in the world have you done? you can’t just daydream a tower build a hut just for fun, then start over one by one before the clock strikes zero one two will you finally get it through- there is a lot that you forgot to do what are you doing new years what are you doing new years what are you doing new year’s eve? i wrote this riff last december and i played it all year to make sure that i remember it didn’t make any sense then and it still doesn’t, but to be fair nether does anything before the clock strikes zero one two will you finally get it through- there is a lot that you were able to do what are you doing new years what are you doing new years what are you doing new year’s eve?

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MUSIC VID for "I'm Filled With Steak, and Cannot Dance"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7CmItmBEpw

MUSIC VID for "Sin Triangle"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVyjLwKnOCk

CD BONUS TRACK
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5zy_IlEUUg

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"What stands out to me ... is her songwriting ability, particularly the way she imbues her innately infectious melodies with an actor’s ear for emotional inflection." - Chris DeVille, Stereogum

"Her optimistic melodies, the Avalanches-y vocal samples on "Sin Triangle" and The Blow-style drums on "Sophisticated Space" … what a complete record!" - Duncan Cooper, The Fader

"Despite her habit of describing herself as unsure or erratic on No Dogs Allowed, Gish is remarkably consistent in capturing what it’s like to enter your twenties without a clear sense of whether you’re living life correctly, or what living life correctly even means." - Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork

"In No Dogs Allowed, Gish showcases everything great about her previous releases—her trademark witty lyricism, criminally catchy choruses, and the layers and layers of melodies tailored to perfection—while introducing an even fuller and fine-tuned sonic energy." - Olivia Gehrke, Boston Hassle

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released December 31, 2017

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