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Spraydog are a five piece from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. They have a lo-fi, high energy thing goin' on and 'Allison Blaire' is their latest single release. It's lo-fi stylee gives a kinda 'live' feel. Full of fuzzed up guitars rattlin' along against superbly punctuating percussion work, thumpin' bass and lazy sounding vocals it glides somewhat silkily along - against all the odds. There's no frills, no pretensions here - just a cleverly worked, neo-punk edged piece with great appeal. The lazy feeling vocals work well against the energetic instrumentation; it's raw overtones almost contradict the slick melody and chorus resulting in a pretty commercially viable track. - Toxic Pete

In a climate in which your Dad is more likely to ask you for the new Robbie Williams album as a Christmas present than tut disconsolately at the volume your stereo is at, Spraydog are a happy reminder that your parents are wrong and that guitar music is in safe, grubby, disobedient hands.
Never underestimate the power of a detuned guitar. It plays riffs you believe you know in ways you never believed possible. Familiar notes clang in unfamiliar patterns. Sonic Youth did it but they did it as much to confuse and deconstruct as they did to entertain. With Spraydog their sense of the obscure is more of a sense of mischief. Fuck it, just barrel in with the required power chords to get the job done, thereby setting the room on fire.
The added element they provide beyond the usual punk action comes more from the My Bloody Valentine tradition - listening to find out what particular guitar lines you can pick out from the mess. And there they are - aided by the mixture of the reasonable and the sullen in the vocals - the rocket trails of guitar melody, partly picked out in clear, sweet notes, partly scalding past in the scramble of distortion.
There are a lot of bands that have set out with exactly the same mindset as Spraydog and very similar ability - think of the Llama Farmers, that sort of band. But there's a lock of creativity which Spraydog have the key for where the others are still banging on the door. They've adjusted their guitars to do some of the speaking for them, so they can concentrate on the delivery. "Don't believe in teen anxiety'," they say with some authority, but every strum of the strings is a punch to the face. Indie rock is a disguise. Every sigh from its protagonists is anathema to Spraydog. They'll break your sorry face with new chords of noise. - Conform Or Die

Those of you lucky enough to have seen Spraydog will know how they manage to combine delicate beauty with a vicious aural assault in a style not seen since My Bloody Valentine went AWOL. To date, their recordings have somehow failed to capture the full power of the live barrage. The new album, Lintered, changes this as the band combine their influences (Pixies, MBV, Sonic Youth, Ride) and spray it with a scent all their own to mark themselves out as one of the most exciting unsigned bands in Britain. When they returned to Cambridge, we’d have been barking to have missed them. - R*E*P*E*A*T

I like Spraydog, I really like this album. Spraydog are like one of those scruffy, messy, little mongrel dogs that follow you home. You know you should chase it off but you end up feeding it you last bit of food and let it sit on your best white chair. Spraydog have some of the same qualities that made My Vitriol so appealing right at the start, they’re a fractured loveable Sonic Youth for Bis fans. They’re fuzzy and spiky and self assured without ever being too imposing or pushing or forcing themselves. They sound like they don’t really care what you or I think because they had such a fine time making their sometime very jagged, very welcoming record. They’re innocent sounding, but not too innocent, there’s a certain knowing dynamic...I like Spraydog. -ORGAN

Okay, this is one of those things I just happened upon. I got the Spraydog 7” on Orgasm a few years ago and liked it, and got another single to the same reaction. I bought this CD a year ago and liked it, but didn’t really listen to it much. Then a few months ago I listened to it again, and it just really hit me. This is an amazing CD! I really REALLY love it! I listen to it at least four times a week. Its one of those things that on the surface seems average, but when you figure that the production sounds good and the songs are well written and performed, that puts it above a lot of other stuff out there. As for sound - if you’ve ever heard Tse Tse Fly, that’s a really good comparison. Boy/girl vocals and a good sense of dynamics. If not, I’d say the really good Pee songs on their first album or Tongue (still obscure I guess). Seek this out, just forgive the unfortunate name... - from www.indiepages.com

The Title of Spraydog’s Citrus Bitumen LP gives about as succinct an evocation of their music as you’ll find. There’s a biting kind of chemical warmth to their songs, such as you get from the smell and feel of a freshly mixed up batch of car body filler. Forgive the ham-fisted analogy but its deadly in earnest. Their records have a bewitching effect that doesn’t so much pull you in as lays things out in front of you. You get a feeling of limitlessness, a sort of quietness in the din. It’s good but the tug of its expansion hurts in some way, like when you reflect on things you’ve lost. Nothing soppy like. Yes, Spraydog reviews are peppered with tiresome references to bands like Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr and the one size fits all encompassing Sonic Youth. But if you can put these to one side for just one second, you’ll see what a nugget Tyneside have got in this band. Be warned though, Spraydog in the flesh are a little more chaotic and noisy than the quietly assured magic of their recordings. - from the Manchester No-Fi Festival programme

Mybloodyseafooddelgadospixies - I feel it’s best to get a description of influences and contemporaries out of the way early on. This is a very good album; the sounds Spraydog make suggest quality at every turn and one of these days they’ll make a record that captures the mood and the moment. For now though, Spraydog will remain a name to be dropped into pub conversations to underline your deep credibility and excellent musical ear. Excellent though it is, Lintered is one of those records that you have to catch at just the right angle to get particularly excited about - but then that’s much the way I felt about the Delgados until the release of their wonderful The Great Eastern. Keep listening. - CMU

Just as you start thinking that you’ve been down that same old road of indie-ghettoism - dark guitary boy meets fragile singing girl - Spraydog attempt to redefine this notion. And quite splendidly too. These People is a nothing song that somehow manages to do the complete opposite by twisting Arab Strap/Mogwai style melodies with fast paced guitar and female vocals. Chapter When is a sprawling beauty that similarly manages to encapsulate the listener with its cinematic style. So overall very good then. - Dancing Penguin