John Askew - These Dogs Trust No One Here

: These men rarely spoke to one another. Instead, they wore headphones, keeping the music on and the world off.

John Askew wrote the track during a period when residents were strictly forced to stay at home, only permitted to leave for essential food shopping or limited daily exercise. To escape the intense heatwave and the psychological strain of being locked up for months, Askew began extending his permitted daily exercise into massive, through the wilderness with his dog. The Scene in the Wilderness

The resulting track, released on his label in 2022, is described as a "bombastic rave meets tech meets trance" anthem. It captures the frantic, repetitive nature of these encounters, as reflected in the track’s description of the loop: "men walking dogs passing dogs walking men passing men walking dogs". John Askew - These Dogs Trust No One

During these epic hikes, often while "completely and utterly loaded on edibles," Askew found a bizarre, unspoken subculture in the wild:

: He encountered other men doing exactly the same thing—trekking through the wilderness with their dogs, similarly disconnected from the "real world". : These men rarely spoke to one another

In 2024, Askew released a reworked version known as the as part of the buildup to his studio album, A Room Full of Pros & Cons .

The story behind the track by John Askew is a reflection of the "cabin fever" and social isolation experienced during the first global lockdown in the summer of 2020. The Inspiration To escape the intense heatwave and the psychological

: Communication was limited to a polite nod between the owners, while the dogs were the only ones allowed to truly interact, typically through a quick sniff. The Musical Manifestation