I've been recording a secret side project album with my long term co
writer and collaborator Robert Conley over the past 2 years.  It was
finished and mixed in December last year and just last week the album
was mastered.

It's a band we call 'We Are Smug'.  Robert and I share lead vocal and
songwriting duties on everything, and up until this second, we haven't
spoken a word of it to anyone outside of our circle of friends.

But today, on my birthday, we've decided it's release day and if you
visit www.wearesmug.com you can download it for free.

This is not the direction of my next album, nor is 'free' the new
price for my music. This is just something I am doing because I can.

While you're digesting this, I'm hard at work on songs for a brand new
studio album for next year.  It's a big 'fuck off' pop record.   POP
with a capital P if you will.  You better have high expectations.

In the meantime, enjoy being Smug.
And Happy Birthday.

xD

Post script : answers to some frequently asked questions

*I sing lead on 'Good Dress' 'Hot Tub Blues' 'Never Be the Same' 'Tear it Up' 'Shit on the Radio'

'Watching Me Watching You' and the second half of 'The Pressure'

I do BV's on all the other songs except for 'Fire it Up'

Rob sings 'Look What We've Started' 'Words That I can't Say' 'Fire it Up' and the first half of 'The Pressure'.

*Nope, that isn't pitch shift or any voice tricks on 'Hot Tub Blues' just me being a dick

*Nope we don't intend to tour it or promote it or take it to the radios.

It is what it is and that is free. And Smug.

*It was a fun creative outlet for two friends who wanted to do something with no rules and no

expectations

*When I say my next record is 'fuck off pop' I mean 'fuck off it's so good!' not 'please go away pop'.

It means 'fuck me that's a great pop album'.

*I swear a bit on the smug record, as I did above.

*I would have just leaked the album as a cool bootleg except none of you would have been able

to find it. But I still do wish it was just a little secret. But only slightly.

*I think our free smug record is better than a lot of records that are asking you for your money.

Just sayin'

;)

xxD