King Dude – Fear (2014)

Seattle black-and-roll songsmith King Dude, aka TJ Cowgill, who also runs the clothing line Actual Pain, is releasing his Fear LP via Not Just Religious Music. The follow-up to 2012’s Burning Daylight was produced by Bill Rieflin (Swans, Ministry).
“I really had to begin to think about what inner fear every single person possibly could have,” explains the singer-songwriter, “Of course the most common fear everyone on Earth shares would be the fear of dying. But that seemed too obvious to write a record called ‘Fear’ and have it be about the fear of death. There are already way too many songs written about being afraid to die. (Or not afraid to die for that matter.) In fact I have written a few of them myself.
“So I chose the next most obvious fear I felt everyone shared,” he continues, “And that is the fear felt during early adolescence. As we move away from our childhood towards our adulthood we (in a sense) watch helplessly from the confides of our own slowly deforming, prepubescent bodies as the ‘child-mind’ is ripped away only (or buried deeply into our subconscious) only to be replaced by the cruel, maniacal, sex crazed ‘adult-mind’ also known as the ultimate product of a civilized adult world reality.”