Straight-up mid-90s garage rock recorded for a Sega Saturn promo disc. Bygone Dogs were a Californian band Sega hired to replace the Japanese synth soundtrack in the US version of Cyber Speedway, and this little audio CD is their showcase.
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Joel Alvares sings over gritty guitar riffs and punchy drums that sound like they were tracked in one afternoon with zero overthinking. The production has that warm analog crunch where the bass rattles against the kick drum.
Some of it pulls from their album Freedom, some was written specifically for the game. It feels like a time capsule of that era when publishers thought every console needed its own alt-rock band. Perfect background noise for Saturn collecting sessions.