Favorite New Release of the Week - July 22nd, 2008

Dr. Dog - Fate

I'm getting ready to take the bar exam next week so I don't have a ton of time to devote to writing reviews at the moment.  I've decided I should probably spend my time studying for this thing.  That being said, it's safe to say it would be negligence on my part if I didn't tell you to pick up Dr. Dog's new album Fate as soon as possible.  See, to be guilty of negligence I have to owe you a duty, breach the duty, causation must exist and finally you would have to be damaged in some way.  In this case, I feel I have a duty to my faithful readers when a great new record comes out so we have our first element.  Then, if I didn't tell you about this one I would obviously be breaching that duty.  As far as causation goes, well... you need cause-in-fact as well as proximate causation.  In the case of cause-in-fact we'd analyze this with the "but for" test.  As in, you would not have been "injured" but for my failure to tell you about this great record.  Proximate cause is a limitation on my liability to you and deals with the harms that fall within the risks of my behavior.  Since you guys read my blog, not telling you about such a great record and the subsequent injury would clearly fall within this realm of foreseeability.  Finally, the all important damage.  If you don't check out this record you will be really missing out.  So with that being said you should pick up Fate if you haven't already because there's some really beautiful stuff on this record.  OK, it's back to the books to check and make sure I didn't explain negligence incorrectly!

• Dr. Dog - "The Ark" from Fate
• Dr. Dog - "The Old Days" from Fate