We would like to express our thanks to David Powers for his great article about our album How to Stay Afloat in Treacherous Waters.

From the article:

All of which is to say that Red Beard’s How to Stay Afloat in Treacherous Waters is the first true album that’s been released in decades. Start to finish, How to Stay Afloat… is one whole. Sure, you can pick the heavy hitters (Sea Goddess, Cope) and put them on the radio, but it’s not the same. This is an album in the Elektra sense of the word—it’s not a nascent collection of songs cobbled together after months of tracks have been cut. This is a single piece of material, artfully woven into a whole: A single release divided into individual tracks for convenience, not necessity.

Let the podheads snag a track here, a track there, and shuffle their ways through town, barely stopping to savor one sound, one feeling, for longer than three minutes, but Red Beard puts them to shame. You can’t get any depth or revelation in a sound bite. You need more time for the process of creation. You need to peak, you need to spread it out. You need to learn to stay afloat in those waters.

But Red Beard, if I can take a moment and make this personal: You need to take even longer on the next one. Give us more than 30 minutes. You are the reason they put two sides on a record. Use them both, Red Beard. Dear God, use them both.

You can read whole thing at his website ZagDog by going to http://www.zagdog.com/page.php?id=34