Dave Hause: WITH SPECIAL GUESTS NORTHCOTE AND TIM HAUSE

In the organizer's words:

It often begins with a feeling. A fleeting thought, an image, an inner vibration. With Dave Hause, it becomes a song. And it becomes an entire album. One that feels like a journey through a changed country, between broken dreams and last hope, between childhood memories and the force of a reality that is difficult to grasp. "Drive It Like It's Stolen", the American songwriter's new work, is not a simple record. It is a record of our present - and an emotional road trip into a world that is increasingly coming apart at the seams. The Philadelphia-born musician, who wavered between Metallica and Misfits as a teenager, has long since found his own sound. A mixture of punk energy, rock urgency and Americana melancholy, carried by a voice that is not afraid to be brittle. Once co-founder of the hardcore band The Curse and guitarist in Paint It Black, Hause turned to a solo career in 2010 - and a sound that works less with a sledgehammer and all the more with the power of words. Hause writes songs that hurt and comfort, accuse and reconcile. His themes: Divorce, fatherhood, mental health, social pressure. And again and again the USA, a country in permanent crisis mode. "I felt like I was in the prequel to 12 Monkeys," he says of his impressions after the pandemic tour. Cities in decay, hope in retreat. And in between: the responsibility of being a father. "Our children are fuel for a system that is devouring them," he explains. It's sentences like this that stick - and that allow his songs to get to the heart of our fears. "Drive It Like It's Stolen" is a collaboration with his brother Tim Hause - the two run the Blood Harmony label together. This creative partnership has already proven to be a stroke of luck on the last few albums: a musical blood relationship that spans anger and tenderness. Produced by Will Hoge in Nashville, the new album sounds raw and direct, poetic and at times almost cinematic. Hause himself calls it "post-apocalyptic Americana". An apt description for a work that does not lose itself in larmoyance, but remains in motion, just like its protagonist. Because despite all the gloom, there is always a sense of moving on. A belief that it is still worth telling stories for those who listen. And for the children who may one day grow up in a better world.