Dave Hause's songs have always been rooted in tangible reality—of emotion, of environment, of circumstance. Since releasing his debut album, Resolutions, in 2011, the Philadelphia-born songwriter has pouredhis whole heart, soul and life into his music.
That’s no different on Drive It Like It’s Stolen, his sixthfull-length. Its 10 songs overflow with Hause’s trademark urgency and passion, shimmering with atruth that reflects the harsh realities of life in this day and age, as well the intermittent jolts of joythat punctuate it. After all, his songs have always detailed his own personal traumas and triumphswithin the setting of an unforgiving capitalist backdrop, tethering those personal experiences toineluctable external forces. 2013’s second album, Devour, for example, was a response to his divorcefrom his first wife, while 2019’s Kick saw him tackle hope, depression, global warming and acrumbling American democracy with the news that he was to become a father. Most recently, on 2021’s Blood Harmony, Hause wrote and sang about the positive impact of having twins, and of thejoy and excitement of being able to be at home with them for the first couple of years of the pandemic.
Drive It Like It’s Stolen is just as earnest and heartfelt, raw and real as anything he’s ever writtenbefore. Yet there’s also a subtle yet significant difference—here he’s delving into a more fictionaltype of storytelling to create what he terms "post-apocalyptic Americana.
