{"id":2467250,"date":"2026-06-19T17:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2467250"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:03:29","slug":"office-dog-release-new-album-prime-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/office-dog-release-new-album-prime-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Dog Release New Album &#8216;Prime Corner&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office Dog\u2019s new album\u00a0<em>Prime Corner\u00a0<\/em>has arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The record pulls together ideas the trio have been circling for months \u2014 home, uncertainty, and what it means to put down roots.<\/p>\n<p>Those themes appeared throughout recent singles \u201cFront Row Seat\u201d, \u201cGold Things\u201d, and \u201cReins\u201d, which offered an early look at a record that balances some of Office Dog\u2019s heaviest and softest material to date.<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s themes are especially clear in \u201cReins\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cReins is a song about going in circles, maybe being your own worst enemy a bit, and wanting someone else to come along and steer the ship,\u201d lead vocalist\/guitarist Kane Strang said when the single arrived. \u201cI was also back home when I wrote the words and thinking a lot about the harder, more isolating side of being in a town at the bottom of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2198392161\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/officedog.bandcamp.com\/album\/prime-corner\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Corner by Office Dog<\/a><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>Much of\u00a0<em>Prime Corner\u00a0<\/em>took shape while Strang was house-sitting in West Auckland. During that time, he started experimenting with alternate guitar tunings for the first time. He brought those ideas to bassist Rassani Tolovaa and drummer Mitchell Innes, who helped shape the tracks into the finished album.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\">\n            Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\">\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cGold Things\u201d arrived early in the writing process and helped define the record\u2019s sound and direction.\u201cThis song is about getting what you\u2019ve wanted, or reaching a place you\u2019ve seen off in the distance for a long time,\u201d Strang said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prime Corner\u00a0<\/em>follows\u00a0<em>Spiel, <\/em>the indie rock band\u2019s acclaimed 2023 debut, which garnered praise across Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>We ranked <em>Spiel\u00a0<\/em>at No. 23 on our list of the 25 Best New Zealand Albums of 2023, and we later placed it at No. 42 on our 80 Best New Zealand Albums of the 2020s So Far countdown.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, we wrote that\u00a0<em>Spiel\u00a0<\/em>offered Strang, Tolovaa, and Innes \u201ca collaborative platform to eplore intricate sounds and existential lyricism,\u201d as they proved themselves to be \u201ca formidable proposition as a musical unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Office Dog - Reins [Official Music Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OokYsvmuX1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Office Dog release <em>Prime Corner\u00a0<\/em>shortly after returning from a busy UK and European tour. The run included appearances at The Great Escape and Dot to Dot Festival, alongside headline dates in Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Paris, Berlin, and London.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their international reach, Strang still speaks most fondly about the community that shaped him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI just feel so lucky to have come into the music world that I came into there,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kane-strang-interview-dunedin-89230\/\" target=\"_blank\">he told us in an interview<\/a> for our recent \u014ctepoti Dunedin Scene Report. \u201cI realised there were so many people my age making really unique music. I was kind of in shock for a little bit [at] how many good songwriters were around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strang and his bandmates will celebrate their new album in Dunedin this September, on a national tour that will also take them to T\u0101maki Makaurau Auckland and \u014chinehou Lyttelton, with a stop at Great Sounds Great in the capital sandwich in between (find out more <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undertheradar.co.nz\/index.php?task=searchall&amp;q=office+dog#anch\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Office Dog\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/office-dog-prime-corner\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Corner<\/a> is out now.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t! function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n\t\t\t\tif (f.fbq) return;\n\t\t\t\tn = f.fbq = function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod ?\n\t\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n\t\t\t\t};\n\t\t\t\tif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n\t\t\t\tn.push = n;\n\t\t\t\tn.loaded = !0;\n\t\t\t\tn.version = '2.0';\n\t\t\t\tn.queue = [];\n\t\t\t\tt = b.createElement(e);\n\t\t\t\tt.async = !0;\n\t\t\t\tt.src = v;\n\t\t\t\ts = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n\t\t\t}(window, document, 'script',\n\t\t\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\t\tfbq('init', '243859349395737');\n\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t\tfbq.disablePushState = true;\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office Dog\u2019s new album\u00a0Prime Corner\u00a0has arrived. The record pulls together ideas the trio have been circling for months \u2014 home, uncertainty, and what it means to put down roots. Those themes appeared throughout recent singles \u201cFront Row Seat\u201d, \u201cGold Things\u201d, and \u201cReins\u201d, which offered an early look at a record that balances some of Office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2467251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[485420,485421,485422,485423,485424,485425,485426,485427],"class_list":["post-2467250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-kane-strang","tag-mitchell-innes","tag-office-dog","tag-office-dog-album","tag-office-dog-music","tag-office-dog-prime-corner","tag-prime-corner","tag-rassani-tolovaa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Office-Dog-Release-New-Album-Prime-Corner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467252,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467250\/revisions\/2467252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}