While maintaining a busy solo career and releasing acclaimed music via Flying Nun Records and Dead Oceans, Kane Strang formed Office Dog in late 2021.

After temporarily relocating from his hometown of Dunedin—the same city that produced bands like The Chills, The Clean, and The Verlaines—to Auckland, he set out to pursue a more collaborative project with drummer Mitchell Innes and bassist Rassani Tolovaa.

Over the following year, musical ideas gradually came together and evolved into full songs, ultimately leading to the band’s debut album, Spiel (2023). They quickly found an audience on streaming platforms — most notably with their Spiel single ‘Big Air’, which surpassed 700,000 streams. The track’s momentum helped land the band on the covers of several prominent playlists on Spotify and TIDAL.

They have since released their Doggerland EP (2024), and are well and truly back with this first new single of 2026!