{"id":26592,"date":"2013-10-01T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-dave-hause-devour\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:26:02","slug":"album-review-dave-hause-devour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-dave-hause-devour\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Dave Hause – Devour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"<\/span>While 2011\u2019s \u2018Resolutions\u2019<\/em> was undoubtetedly a solid compilation of punk anthems, <\/span>\u2018Devour\u2019<\/em> is something else entirely. An ambitious 12-song masterpiece with a sweeping narrative arc, Hause<\/strong> tackles the state of the world we live in and how we choose to cope with it. Drawing parallels with Billy Bragg\u2019s \u2018<\/span>To Have And To Have Not\u2019<\/em>, which declared \u201cAt 21 you\u2019re on top of the scrapheap, at 16 you were on top of your class\u201d and ‘the system\u2019s failed you, don\u2019t fail yourself’<\/em>, \u2018Devour\u2019<\/em> is a record with a troubled conscience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those already familar with Dave Hause<\/strong> will be pleased to know that his sound is still the same bluesy guitars and soulful Philadelphia vocals, but lyrically Hause<\/strong> has reached a new pinnacle. \u2018Devour\u2019<\/em> is simple yet powerful, there\u2019s no technical guitar work or Greg Graffin-type complex language but like Hemmingway, it\u2019s simplicity is what gives \u2018Devour\u2019<\/em> it\u2019s emotional weight. It\u2019s also the kind of album that should be listened to in order, as it\u2019s ideas are noticeably split into two halves.<\/p>\n

The first half centres on the fallout of what Hause refers to as \u2018The Great Depression\u2019<\/em>, the resulting effects of the idea that ‘you can be anything, just get your education’. Dave Hause<\/strong> may be a full generation seperate from myself, but for many who have come out of University with a degree and zero prospects, this idea is one that will resonate. Single \u2018We Could Be Kings\u2019<\/em> furthers this idea of deceit and disappointment, it\u2019s chorus summarising, \u201cThey told us we could be kings, but we were damned from the start\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Autism Vaccine Blues\u2019<\/em> and \u2018Same Disease\u2019<\/em> examine the effects of anti-alcohol medication<\/a> (both prescribed and alcohol\/drug related) and the results they have on yourself and those around you. \u201cI can\u2019t feel alive unless I\u2019m feeling sick\u201d<\/em> becomes a metaphor for a destructive relationship, a reoccurring theme that also appears in \u2018Before\u2019<\/em>. The first half of the album deals with some weighty issues, and is confessional in its honesty.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The turning point comes at \u2018Father\u2019s Son\u2019,<\/em> which starts off as an excuse, “I am my father\u2019s son, it\u2019s a fate I can\u2019t outrun”<\/em> before building into the realisation that this can be a positive, \u201cI am my father\u2019s son devouring all I can\u2019t outrun\u201d.<\/em> The concept of being your father\u2019s son is clearly something that resonates with Hause<\/strong>, and is mentioned in four of the album\u2019s twelve tracks. However the previous idea of being a victim of circumstance dissolves around this point, and \u2018Stockholm Syndrome\u2019<\/em> opens with a rallying fanfare that wouldn\u2019t sound amiss in a Green Day concept album. Luckily the lyrics such as “sick of feeling sick, let me up, I\u2019ve had enough”<\/em> (which reference \u2018Same Disease\u2019)<\/em> manage to weigh in on the right side of uplifting without wandering into Glee territory.<\/p>\n

Having been played live since the beginning of the year, \u2018Shine\u2019<\/em> will undoubtedly familar to fans. Similar to \u2018C\u2019mon Kid\u2019<\/em>, the simple refrain of “meet your darkness with the shine”<\/em> is likely to become a live singalong classic. Proving that he is equally adept at slower songs, penultimate track \u2018Bricks\u2019<\/em> is a softer, number made memorable by the emotion that seethes through Hause\u2019s<\/strong> voice as he sings.<\/p>\n

Closing with \u2018Benediction\u2019<\/em>, Hause<\/strong> draws closure by summarising each of the albums ideas, self-referencing as he declares, ’open wide and sing because we\u2019re damned from the start’<\/em>. Having exorcised his demons over the course of \u2018Devour\u2019<\/em> Hause<\/strong> concludes that \u201clove in the end, it can save us tonight\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There are some albums that manage to capture a place and time perfectly and this is undoubtedly one of those albums. Raw and beautiful , \u2018Devour\u2019s <\/em>strength lies in it\u2019s simplicity, it\u2019s \u201cjust a man and guitar\u201d basicness. A contender for album of the year, this could be the release that catapults Dave Hause<\/strong> to Frank Turner levels of popularity.<\/p>\n

5\/5 <\/p>\n

\u2019Devour<\/em> by Dave Hause<\/strong> is released on 8th October via Rise Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Dave Hause<\/strong> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Jay Sullivan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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