Ankety Low Day Explained

Ankety Low Day
Type:	album
Artist:	Tone Dogs
Cover:	Tone Dogs - Ankety Low Day.jpg
Recorded:	Dogfish Studios, Newberg, OR Amy Denio's driveway, Seattle, WA
Genre:	Rock in Opposition
Length:	39:23
Label:	C/Z
Next Title:	The Early Middle Years
Next Year:	1991

Ankety Low Day is the debut studio album by Tone Dogs, released on November 15, 1990, by C/Z.

Critical reception

In writing for Spin, critic Byron Coley compared the band favorably to Fish & Roses, Etron Fou Leloublan and Dos and said "Impossible to peg, elegantly crafted, their music seems soothingly familiar even at the moment your forebrain tells you that something very fucked up is happening."^[1]

Personnel

Adapted from the Ankety Low Day liner notes.^[2]

Tone Dogs

• Matt Cameron – drums, backing vocals
• Fred Chalenor – bass guitar, electric guitar, bowed guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Amy Denio – vocals, saxophone, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Bob Bain – guitar (4)
• Courtney Von Drehle – saxophone (4)
• Fred Frith – guitar, violin
• Hans Reichel – idiophone, guitar

Technical personnel

• Drew Canulette – engineering, mixing
• Lance Limbocker – mixing assistant
• Rhonda Pelikan – design
• Garry Transue – painting

Notes and References

1. Byron . Coley . Tone Dogs . . SPIN Media LLC . November 1990 . 6 . 8 . 88 . December 12, 2014.
2. Ankety Low Day . . 1990 . booklet . . Seattle, Washington.