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In compliance with both DD Owen’s wishes and my similarly ill-bred sense of self-worth, I’m gonna go ahead and get the wheels on the DD-Owen-Express rollin’ again, despite my intent to space out Drew’s material on my channel. I meant to upload a totally unrelated project today, but seeing that I forgot to render its respective video last night, I’m gonna have to settle with a video that I’ve already got primed for uploading. So, in this case, it’s gonna be DD Owen’s “Plane EP”.

And the crowd goes mild.

Look buddy, I’ve got, like, quotas and shit to fulfill over here. I ain’t able to seamlessly crank out hot, new bands for you to publicly gush over and pretend that either of us has got musical tastes that are worth a fuckin’ damn. Sometimes, I just gotta fall back on shit that you’ve probably heard of already – huge emphasis on “probably”. From the looks of it, the first track of this three-track EP is the only one to have surfaced on the immediately-accessible part of the web, meaning that the remaining two tracks are uncharted territory, assuming that y’all don’t already have a physical copy of the 7” yourselves. So you’re welcome... er, I’m sayin’ that on behalf of Drew Owen, of course. He’s the one who provided me the files for this release, so if you were lookin’ to get your hands on these recordings, then thank the DD dude himself, not me.

For the uninitiated, DD Owen is the guy behind Baltimore’s Sick Thoughts – or I suppose I should say New Orleans’ Sick Thoughts, since Drew moved down south in early 2016. As the opening track, "I Hate This City", blatantly suggests, Drew has come to hate Baltimore and all its phony, self-indulgent ideals. So, naturally, he moved from one shitty state to another. Seriously, I can’t imagine Louisiana to be much of a step-up from Maryland; but I guarantee that half of you wouldn’t even be able to point out either of those states on a map, so the supposed significance of someone’s location would be lost on you regardless. But back to the subject at hand: “DD Owen” is just another name that Drew uses to release his solo-produced music under, not unlike Sick Thoughts or Chicken Chain, which are two other projects that he’s written and recorded on his own. This particular EP, which was released by Sweden’s Ken Rock in early January, features three more Drew Owen originals. Though, if you’re solely anticipating some more Sick Thoughts off-shoot material then there’s a chance that you’re going to be left slightly disappointed, as DD Owen and Sick Thoughts are two separate entities that can barely be viewed within a single scope.

As Drew puts it, DD Owen is his solo persona:

“He doesn’t scream like the Sick Thoughts guy. He sings words like a human being.”

I feel that aptly describes the nature of music that DD Owen was aiming for. It’s still drawing from the same well of rock-tinged punk influences that Sick Thoughts has been thoroughly relishing in, though within this particular interpretation of Drew’s tried-and-true idiot rock n’ roll sounds, it’s considerably more concentrated and calculated. With the clunky, yet controlled introductory riff, it’s immediately clear that DD Owen is making more of an effort to articulate his instrumentation, doing without a good portion of throwaway power chords and sporadic noodling. Every aspect of his musicianship has been honed to a razor-sharp point in this EP, especially when it comes to the bass and vocals, whose presence is lucid and vital to the integrity of these rock melodies when they typically came second to the showy guitar work in Sick Thoughts. It’s a discernible change in pace and tone from Drew’s typical material, more-so in the third track, “Suburban Nightmare”, which is a slow-paced, bass-driven mind-number that’s riddled with harshly reverberated vocals and appropriately cryptic inflections in both the guitar and bass. Pair the concentrated rock dosage with the oddly-placid, yet still-contemptuous vocals, and you’ve got an interesting, niche side project to the contrastingly-crude Sick Thoughts. Now, the succeeding self-titled DD Owen LP (released by 12XU in September: https://ddowen12xu.bandcamp.com/album...) is a totally different sort of beast that should be approached with an open mind, clear of any expectations that this particular EP likely gave you. I suppose Drew’s doin’ whatever with the DD Owen name, because that LP is somethin' else.

TRACK LIST:
I Hate This City – 0:00
Plane – 1:43
Suburban Nightmare – 3:34

DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/h060flf...