Dan Wallace to release new album

Chicago-based composer Dan Wallace’s fourth Alternative Pop-Rock album, Den of Maniacs, will be released on March 23, 2010.

Dan Wallace's fourth solo rock album continues his legacy of rock releases that tread the line between written composition and improvisation. Den of Maniacs, an album of mixed genres and fluctuating sensibilities, opens with the catchy “Look at Me,” which Wallace describes as “a song in which I improvise a lot of electric guitar solos as a means of coping with increasingly colorful existential quandaries.”

Continues Dan, “I always get great response to my solos live, but I had never really explored that in depth in the studio.”

The album quickly changes tone, however, with the second track, “Go Away,” which Wallace claims to be a response to Jacques Brel’s famous “Ne Me Quite Pas.” By song three, a stripped down classical guitar, voice, and violin arrangement of “Vante Left Them Human” (a song that appeared on Wallace’s first album in a very different form), it becomes clear that one can only guess at what’s to come next.

Despite the shifting guises from song to song, there is a unifying stylistic thread that is decidedly a product of Wallace’s complex creative vision. It is this unique vision that certainly makes him a valuable find, and that keeps Wallace fans coming back for more. These traits have not been lost on critics either, who have favorably compared Wallace to a wide range of artists that has included Frank Zappa, The Shins, and Dungen.

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