Prolific Brooklyn-based songwriter
Kevin Devine called on his fans to help fund not one, but two new albums in 2013, starting a Kickstarter campaign and reaching his goal of $50,000 in donations in less than a single day. The campaign would go on to more than double that goal, and of the two resultant records (the other being
Bubblegum, a high-energy collaboration with his friends in
the Goddamn Band),
Bulldozer was credited as a solo album, bringing
Devine's culturally critical and often political lyrics a little higher in the mix along with the acoustic guitars. Without losing any of the distortion,
Devine's approach is clear-headed and direct, melding the indie pop mysticism of
Neutral Milk Hotel or
Elliott Smith's tunesmithery with the political conscience of
Billy Bragg.