• Reviews

• Please read reviews for "Striving For A New Tomorrow" here
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• Ford Pier on David P. Smith:

1. "Everyday morbid fascination with 'The Dark Side' of human activity has
2. reached a state in popular entertainment where it has practically no relevance whatsoever. The gamut loitered about by the school-bus full of
3. unpleasant snots who cynically revel in 'showing' their mis-guided audiences every stripe of perversion or cruelty in the name of 'art' runs from laughable to mean-spirited on a good day. I guess you can't argue with what sells. Unless you're really good, like David P. Smith.

• Instead of sadism and humiliation as audience-complicit devices in the discussion of sadism and humiliation, he gives us compassion. Instead of sulkiness and pessimism, he gives us humour. Instead of rote emulation of style, we have in his work the re-organization of classic recognizable
• shapes toward an unfamiliar construct. I suspect that somewhere amidst
• the wheeze of the tubercular accordian and the clatter of the life-support machine rhythms, David P. Smith harbours an instinctive conviction that we respond so profoundly to the corrupt because our capacity for purity is equally profound. You may not make it, but you have to try. Otherwise, what are we doing here? And isn't this, in fact, the most common thread uniting country, hillbilly, blues, or devotional musics, for example? The resignation to, and the quest for joy in Struggle?"
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• (Check out Ford Pier's music- compelling, complex, rewarding- here)

• "Darker and wackier than even the starkest country standard, Smith's
•   music  evokes a hellacious region located somewhere to the south of
•   Tom Wait's realm...Smith's songs are grotesque, grim, and often relent-
•   lessly hilarious"
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•                                                                  Ron Forbes-Roberts, Monday Magazine
• "...darkly funny, smart, and politically charged."

2.                                                                            Joe Blake, Victoria Times-Colonist

• "...'Hurtin' Dance Party' is both original and the most lunatic thing I've
•   heard in several months."
• heard                                                                                                      Americana UK

• "Chalk up another winner for the island's increasingly active music scene."

•                                                                      Stuart Derdeyn, Vancouver Province

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1. -Please click here to read a review of "Hurtin' Dance Party" on   splendidezine.com
4. -Please click here to read an article about David in Monday Magazine

• -Please click here to read an article in the Victoria Times-Colonist

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