DAVE HAUSE & THE MERMAID

DAVE HAUSE & THE MERMAID+ SINCERE ENGINEER

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 poured his whole heart, soul and life into his music. That’s no different on Drive It Like

It’s Stolen, his sixth full-length. Its 10 songs overflow with Hause’s trademark urgency and

passion, shimmering with a truth that reflects the harsh realities of life in this day and age,

as well the intermittent jolts of joy that punctuate it. After all, his songs have always

detailed his own personal traumas and triumphs within the setting of an unforgiving

capitalist backdrop, tethering those personal experiences to ineluctable external forces.

2013’s second album, Devour, for example, was a response to his divorce from his first

wife, while 2019’s Kick saw him tackle hope, depression, global warming and a crumbling

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 the joy and excitement of being able to be at home with them for the first couple of

years of the pandemic.