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[INDIE] What can we say about a band called A Giant Dog that releases an album entitled Pile? Conjure whatever images you may (reference the cover image if you’re having trouble), this Austin-based five-piece’s debut for Merge is steeped in the retro-glam abandon that scored them the opening slot on Spoon’s 2012 tour, not to mention numerous critical accolades along the way for their rock-and-roll realness. “We are shitty people who do not deserve to be signed to Merge,” front gal Sabrina said upon completion of the new album, out earlier this month and produced by Mike McCarthy (White Denim). If much has changed, it’s only that the disc presents a slightly tighter version of the band’s former self: Pile is more solid than the title implies. Sunday, May 22 at Mohawk Place with Johns and Uniform Operator.