{"id":24662,"date":"2016-01-25T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=24662"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:01:32","slug":"tmn-new-artist-alex-dezen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=24662","title":{"rendered":"TMN New Artist:  Alex Dezen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=24666\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24666\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24666\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alex_Dezen-Alex_Dezen-cover1-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Alex_Dezen-Alex_Dezen-cover[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On February 12, 2016, Alex Dezen, founder, frontman and main songwriter for the Brooklyn-bred four-piece The Damnwells, will embark on his next musical phase by issuing his first full-length solo set, an appropriately eponymous, deeply personal, 10-track self-portrait of a man now ready to lay the foundation for his own identity as a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen words alone are not enough, you need to say it in a song,\u201d says Dezen, when asked why he felt now was the right time to write and record his inaugural full-fledged solo album. As Dezen describes, a creative burst during a stint in Ohio over New Year\u2019s 2015 sowed the seeds for tracks that would be recorded in Los Angeles during January and February. \u201cI didn\u2019t write like 30 songs and just kind of pick the 10 best. These are 10 songs that I had to write.\u201d The bulk of the sonic slices on the album are served up straight from past personal, and often painful, experiences. \u201cThe good thing about writing these songs is that when I have to talk about them I can just say, literally, all you have to do is read the lyrics. Because it\u2019s not like its coached in some kind of flowery metaphor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lyrical focus on family and friends, politics and pop culture portrayed in songs such as \u201cOde To Ex-Girlfriends\u201d (a tender tribute to a series of exes and their moms), \u201cIf You Can Say I Love You On A Greeting Card How Can It Be True\u201d (a tale of domestic drama), \u201cInto the Hands of Hazelton\u201d (a sonic equivalent of a buddy road picture), \u201cLeonardo\u201d (a tip of the cap to his girlfriend\u2019s fantasy celebrity freebie, Leonardo DiCaprio) and the intensely personal \u201cI Don\u2019t Want To Be Alone When I Die,\u201d led to Dezen\u2019s decision not to collaborate with other writers on any of the songs on the record. \u201cThese are all me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Dezen is now playing on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?page_id=8999\">TMN Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 12, 2016, Alex Dezen, founder, frontman and main songwriter for the Brooklyn-bred four-piece The Damnwells, will embark on his next musical phase by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"TMN New Artist:  Alex Dezen","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,1832,3402],"tags":[9325,9323,106,9324,103,7293],"class_list":["post-24662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-kfhs-radio","category-area-music","tag-this-is-the-last-songill-ever-write-on-this-guitar","tag-alex-dezen","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-the-damnwells","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tmn-radio-new-artist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24672,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662\/revisions\/24672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}