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(photo by Hilary J. Corts)

You Blew It! will be releasing Keep Doing What You’re Doing via Topshelf Records on January 14th. Pre-order the album here and check out the artwork and track listing in addition to a new song called “Award Of The Year Award” below after the jump.

For me, there are only ever two ways to initially approach an album: lyrically or rhythmically. It’s rare that on first listen I ever really catch onto the “whole package” of a record, but it is something I can (and do) often come around to with my favorite albums – and this more well-rounded understanding tends to be what sets those records apart from the pack for me. I toss around a lot of first listen, like “Oh yeah, it was great! Super 90s rock vibe” or “What an [adjective]-ly happy/angry/depressing album” statements. With that being said, my assessment is usually pretty surface and based mostly upon the one element of the album that struck me hardest.

With this site, however, I’m trying my hardest to put more care into how I cast opinions into the endless pissing contest that the Internet can tend to be about music. I’m trying to listen closer and more often and more inquisitively than I ever have before. I care about music. I know we all do, but I just want to have some sort of something to back up that idea.

And with all that being said, Dowsing’s I Don’t Even Care Anymore is an album I just get, but also one that I easily could and would have singularly analyzed/judged/etc. before this year. Sure, the band unquestionably plays pretty standard “feel good sad jams,” as per their Facebook description, and is just as unquestionably straightforward lyrically, but if there was a good time in my life to hear this record, it would be now, while I’m in the midst of not a romantic break-up, but rather more of an “Oh shit! I’m an adult now. I’d better ‘break-up’ with kid in me” type of unnecessary angst.