Knock yourself out is the new album from Dave Graney. its a solo album though longtime collaborator Clare Moore was very much involved in the recording , writing and arranging of many tracks. It follows the jazz rnb masterwork of 2008 we wuz curious which was credited to their collective The Lurid Yellow Mist.

The title is another boxing allusion . ( we wuz robbed! - Knock yourself out!) In Dave Graneys way of speaking, its an invitiation to go your hardest! Its a positive lick. Knock yourself out.Cmon!

Its not a guy with an acoustic guitar and its a very feisty and upbeat set. Dave wants it to be called an electro boogie album as it has a kind of keyboard driven wonk sound in some parts.

Dave Graneys music is not generic. Its not rootsy or pop but it kind of is as well. Its Dave Graney music. He started to write songs in the post punk period when mythology and ideology and self expression and mythology were all screwed up and meeting head on. Everybody wrote songs about their own situation then, standing outside the disco, about to walk in.

He's always up to something but American music has always been an inspiration and his own drama as an Australian artist and musician has thrilled him as well.

So here he is again, album number twenty something, standing outside the disco, about to walk in, Knock yourself out!