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'Oddly American' aggressive folk-rock has grown into the romantic power-pop sound on Sidewalk Dave's new album, Hard On Romance. Since 2007, they have conjured up a deep instinct for rebellious brotherhood together in New Haven, CT. The band has opened for Deer Tick, The Low Anthem, O'Death, Woods, Danielson, Cotton Jones. David Van Witt, the frontman of the group and namesake to the bandname explains Hard On Romance: This album is about what all my albums are about, growing up yet staying young. I've always been a romantic. I romanticized bravery and cowardice and all it's lessons with Songs For Cowards, drinking with Gold Liquid Mischief, and the luring temptation of being more than friends with Can't Be Your Friend. Now, I romanticize the hardship that romance often brings with Hard On Romance. I have always had a hard-on for romance, yet I've always been pretty hard on romance as a utopian fallacy spread by entertainers as a sure-sell topic (i.e. Shakespeare, DeAngelo etc.) I've explored every romantic hardship, from sleeping my way out of depression to avoiding domestic stasis - and the places between (vulva portals to warm wombs of comfort). The album artwork is an anatomic illustration of the reproductive bulb of a queen honey bee. There is nothing harder on romance than a drone bee dedicating his entire existence on one day making love with his queen, only for her to then rip his genitalia and abdomen out with her lancet. He falls to his death in a fit of ecstasy and pain - a trip I was on when I wrote these songs. Hard On Romance is a departure from their last record . In congruence with growing up and learning the hard lessons of romance, there is an attempt to stay young through the 90's influenced production that leaves the listener with a lot more alt-rock than alt-country. recommended for fans of: The Black Keys, The Pixies, The Strokes, Deer Tick, Ty Segall, Kings Of Leon, The Flaming Lips, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Neutral Milk Hotel 'They've descended deep into the gutter, rolled around for a bit, screwed their courage to the post, and ascended with a very mature and enthralling album...[Sidewalk Dave] are true artists' - No Depression (Apr 13, 2010) "easily one of the best releases of 2011. 'Sinister Things' is one of the best songs of the year hands down.' - CT.com (Dec 14, 2011) 'These four rollicking power-pop songs (of 'Can't Be Your Friend') are among the most accomplished that [Sidewalk Dave] has written so far.' - Hartford Courant (Jun 13, 2011)