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David J releases second preview of upcoming full-length
17 February 2003

For fans, the wait for David J’s sixth solo album is nearly over. David J (David J Haskins), formerly with Bauhaus, Love And Rockets, and The Jazz Butcher, has been working on the new LP since ’99, when he wrote “I have a vision for it, I can hear it in my head. Sort of Jimmy Webb meets Air meets Guy Clark meets an English speaking Serge Gainsbourg at a wake for Mickey Rourke.”
    To finance that vision he auctioned some of his, and rock’s, past, including instruments, clothing, and handwritten lyrics from the Bauhaus and Love And Rockets days.
    Last summer he released the first taste of the new LP—its working title changed from Maladies, Ballads And Bruises to the less prosaic Estranged—in the form of a five-track EP that featured Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters on background vocals and guitar, and Steven Perkins (drums) and Dave Navarro (guitar) from Jane’s Addiction. See our review, link below.
    David J and HeyDay Records have now released a second taste, another five track EP titled Mess Up. In addition to the title track the disc has Goth Girls In Southern California, Jeanna Fine, Good To Be Loved, and Mexican Drugstore. You can download an MP3 version of Goth Girls with our link.
    The album itself is due soon, but we don’t yet have a solid release date for you. | David J | | Goth Girls (full length MP3) | | HeyDay Records | | Fan site | | Guitar Man review on Rockbites | | top of page |

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