More News from the Mellow Struggle

Ah yes, this week has been a good week for yours truly...yesterday I was informed via a Facebook post that Swearing At Motorists has a new collection of old singles pulled together from various hard to find or out of print 7 inches dating back to the mid 90's, when singer Dave Doughman was just a "Midwestern music geek and hypersensitive malcontent" living in "a half-real, half-imagined land where Hayden and Neutral Milk Hotel held the same lofty cultural status as Marion's Pizza and John Glenn" in Dayton Ohio (John Wenzel, rock critic DENVER POST).

Did you follow all that?

Once again, I'm really excited because it's been roughly 5 years since we've had any substantial news of a release by Swearing, apart from sparse Holiday-themed giveaways, and a house show tour in March of 2010 with the promise of a live recording for every attendant of the show they were at. (still waiting)

Then there was the free EP for the first 1000 S@M Facebook Fans To Gem City With Love, which includes alternate versions of 2 songs from the forthcoming album: Swearing At Motorists - "on the vanity of existence", set to come out in Sept 2011.



But let me go back to this collection of rare gems, Postcards From A Drinking Town.



It is being released as a download only deal from Amazon, iTunes, and Secretly Canadian right HERE.

I'd say it's a great warmup for the avid fan, patiently awaiting the new record. It's pretty lo fi - most of the early stuff was recorded on the fly (it sounds like to me), in living rooms and basements. I think it gives a really intimate glimpse into the life of a struggling man in a hard town, trying to do what he loves for a living. Dave Doughman is one of few who have kept the dream alive, despite the changes that come with this over-saturated, hype-based era of music we're all stuck in.

This music is a true taste of genuine, heart-felt, lo fi music, recorded that way out of NECESSITY.

Listen to Feeling Transparent and you might get a glimpse of what I'm trying to say here. Then, decide for yourself...I'm a life-long convert, and it only took one show.