Joining up the dots between creepy and fun with artful aplomb, Salvation Bill is approachable and enigmatic in the same breath. Here’s a new three-track single, including two versions of the jaunty, sly and glorious pocket-sized epic ‘Dead Dog’ as well as the lovely ‘Ice To Have Known You’, which singer Ollie describes prosaically as being “about a guy who’s about to fall through the ice”.

The single is available in a unique physical format: a dog food-style tin, containing bone sweets and a USB stick! Check it out:

Want something else? Here you go, then – a rather unhinged and excellent video to accompany ‘Dead Dog':

The promotional blurb that Salvation Bill have written to big up ‘Dead Dog’ is worth a read in its own right:

“One day, shortly after moving into his new house, he heard a terrible sound. A sound that screwed at his stomach and jiggled his adrenal glands. It wasn’t woofing; woofing is a nice word and comes out of kids’ books and is used to describe self-satisfied unemployed people who have just left university. It was a ‘hollow, Jurassic sound’. It was barking at its most demented. One Friday night it started at 5.30 pm and finished at 11.30am the next morning. It was a continuous, super loud barking by a great dane with some very capable pipes. After countless ruined lie-ins and weekends Salvation Bill decided to take vengeance in the most withering way possible. He would write a song and call it ‘Dead Dog’.”