"It's a special kind of lonely in a strip club Christmas night." Yes, sir, if you're feeling bad this Christmas, we've got an EP, here, to make you sit up and say, "Hey, I got it better than THAT guy." And it's even worse; it's a strip club where a Stuckey's used to be. Dear Lord, that's depressing.
I've never encountered David Dearnley before, but now the Alt Folk singer-songwriter has me fascinated. David is from Hartsburg, Missouri. He describes himself and his music perfectly, with more than a little sarcasm, too. He says he's a "survivor of a good upbringing" and a successful career and marriage who now makes "pre-apocalyptic folk, and dystopian love songs". SIGN ME UP!
All four of the songs on "Dystopian Christmas" are wonderfully dreary. But I think "Christmas In A Strip Club" is the most wonderfully depressing of the lot. It might be because I know people who DJ at strip clubs. And it's pretty depressing to begin with, but, yeah, a strip club on Christmas night? That's gotta be the worst. For everybody. Imagine having no place better to be on Christmas. And the twist of the song is he's there trying to recapture childhood memories because his family used to stop there...when it was Stuckey's. Man, that's too twisted. I love it.
"Christmas On The Nod", naturally enough, is about a junkie's holiday. "Hell of A Holiday" is about using Christmas as a distraction to deal with life while using life as a distraction to get through Christmas. And "Hiding Places" is about hiding what you're truly feeling behind a smile.
Technically, "Dystopian Christmas" is a collection of holiday songs from the past few years. "Hiding Places" would appear to be this year's addition. So long as depressing music doesn't depress you then, absolutely, you should download "Dystopian Christmas" from Bandcamp. It's name-your-price. This David Dearnley fellow is pretty darn good.
I've never encountered David Dearnley before, but now the Alt Folk singer-songwriter has me fascinated. David is from Hartsburg, Missouri. He describes himself and his music perfectly, with more than a little sarcasm, too. He says he's a "survivor of a good upbringing" and a successful career and marriage who now makes "pre-apocalyptic folk, and dystopian love songs". SIGN ME UP!
All four of the songs on "Dystopian Christmas" are wonderfully dreary. But I think "Christmas In A Strip Club" is the most wonderfully depressing of the lot. It might be because I know people who DJ at strip clubs. And it's pretty depressing to begin with, but, yeah, a strip club on Christmas night? That's gotta be the worst. For everybody. Imagine having no place better to be on Christmas. And the twist of the song is he's there trying to recapture childhood memories because his family used to stop there...when it was Stuckey's. Man, that's too twisted. I love it.
"Christmas On The Nod", naturally enough, is about a junkie's holiday. "Hell of A Holiday" is about using Christmas as a distraction to deal with life while using life as a distraction to get through Christmas. And "Hiding Places" is about hiding what you're truly feeling behind a smile.
Technically, "Dystopian Christmas" is a collection of holiday songs from the past few years. "Hiding Places" would appear to be this year's addition. So long as depressing music doesn't depress you then, absolutely, you should download "Dystopian Christmas" from Bandcamp. It's name-your-price. This David Dearnley fellow is pretty darn good.
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