Once again combining an eclectic mix of musical styles, The Hollywood Drunks second album is a free for all of pop, rock, reggae, hip hop, and alternative. And lyrically, whether he's crooning or flowing, his style is all over the map as well. It represents his life as an artist, always changing and evolving, never staying in the same place. But what remains constant is his honesty and his ability to laugh at himself and his life.

"Swell" is an album that's both humorous and reflective. It's about adapting to the new circumstances and obstacles life likes to throw in our way."That Age" follows the aging process as it recognizes that, with each new year we're on this planet, more and more friends will drop out of our lives. And whether it's due to their death or that they're just sick to death of us, we experience and mourn each loss. He sets a somber tone in "Lonely Feeling" which explores emotional loss. But then, follows it with the humorous "Wake You", where Eric, attending a friend's party, laments the loss of his youth realizing, "Over half the people there I could've been their father." Entering the mind-blowing age of parenthood is sensitively addressed in, "Getting Young." You can almost see the bemused smirk on his face as he tries to convince himself and us that through each change he "feels swell in a perfectly unusual way." And his enthusiasm is contagious.

The Hollywood Drunks are able to make us laugh at the absurdities in life, all the while encouraging us to live each day as if it's our last. and by the end of "Swell" we can see the power and beauty of accepting each face-slapping change that life blindsides us with and we, too, feel "Swell".

Eric Winzenried - Vox
Lloyd Stuart Casson - Guitars, Bass
Carl West - Bass
Paul Sandberg - Keys
Sebastian Sheehan - Drums and Percussion

1. Welcome
2. I Get It
3. That Age
4. Unfreeze
5. Swell
6. You're Right
7. Lonely Feeling
8. Welcome to Showbiz
9. Attitude
10. Real Estate
11. Getting Young
12. Wake You
13. Bankrupt
14. It Wouldn't Last

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 03/16/2015
Hollywood Drunks lives in California USA

Tagged as: Alt Rock, Rock, Pop

1. Music of Fernando Sor by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
2. Cancionero by Dufay Collective: instrumental and vocal music from the Middle Ages and Reniassance
3. Brave New World by Sterling: sublime and ethereal electronic music
4. Renaissance Lute by Ed Durbrow: Renaissance lute music.
5. 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime by Steve Eulberg: smile-inducing, toe-tapping folkgrass
6. Courante by Edward Martin and Thomas Walker: French lute duets that represent the pinnacle of the High Baroque
7. Two Romantic Piano Trios by Women Composers by Streicher Trio: classical chamber music on period instruments
8. The First Gate by Eight Gates: charming folk pop/rock with a hint of electronica opening the gates to the land of the fairies
9. Switch On - Switch Off by Strojovna 07: techno.
10. Sick Songs by Electric Frankenstein: high energy punk rock & roll
11. Burgundy Rhymes by Suchitra Lata: Swirling Chillout, Ambient, World, Progressive Pop, Indian classical veena and much more in between
12. Dalliance by Emavision: the sound of trees falling between East n' West
13. Mobius Strip by Suchitra Lata: Swirling Chillout, Ambient, World, Progressive Pop, Indian classical veena and much more in between
14. Dreaming by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
15. The Vision Of Enoch by Sulis: heavenly, healing, early music
16. Down the Rabbit Hole by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
17. Sundowner by Sundowner: shape-shifting space rock sound of vast drifting guitar-scapes
18. Crowd of Reeds by Emmalee Crane: ambient, orchestral drone music
19. Among the Lasses, songs of Robert Burns (1759-1796) by Susan Rode Morris: early music delivered with a voluptuous voice and intensely focused delivery
20. Fever Dreams by Endless Blue: Trashy Beats, Melancholy Keys, Sultry Vocals

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