David Nathan hails from Lubbock, Texas “home of Buddy Holly and Prairie Dog Town,” where future Dixie Chick Natalie Maines would come over and play with his sister Amy, and where David would start his own band The Eclectics with future national talent Beth Wood when they were both in their teens. David moved on to play in the experimental comedy/rock group The Ponies before moving to Austin and drumming for Bug (later renamed Splinter), an alternative group voted one of Austin’s Best New Bands in the early nineties. David Nathan departed for Boston in the late nineties forming the funk/hip hop influenced Beat Down Sound with members of turntablist DJ Logic’s live band before returning to Austin in 2000 to blend his talents with Loxsly, Moistboys OTC, and She Sir. 　　 　　All of these various influences can be heard on Neurotic City, David Nathan’s first solo album, as well as the impact of artists like Jonathan Richman, Elliot Smith, Elvis Costello, Harry Nilsson, the Magnetic Fields and the Velvet Underground. Neurotic City, based on a pun on Prince’s salacious “Erotic City,” is a concept album about delusions, longing and heartbreak, all delivered with straight-faced humor and after the fact wisdom from the closing stages of a tough personal expedition. Songs like “Neurotic City,” “It’s Always Raining (in My Head)” and “I’m In Love With a Lesbian” are attempts at laughing at uncomfortable and sometimes painful experiences, whereas “California” and “Rock and Roll” are escapist fantasies from the other side of the rainbow. The songs navigate smoothly from driving Velvety rock to country, reggae and Beatlesque pop, with many incorporating samples from artists as diverse as T. Rex, Elvin Bishop and Joy Division. The first line from Neurotic City’s only cover song, the Smiths’ “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” sums up the album’s theme of deliverance from darkness to light; “Good times/for a change.” 　　 　　Remastered April 2010 by Justin Douglas (Loxsly/Royal Forest) at Shine Studios, Austin Texas 　　 　　David Nathan arranges and performs all vocals and instruments on Neurotic City. 　　 　　Coming Fall 2010, New EPs Mapping the Lost Highway and Chin Music 　　 　　Capital Zen. The Best Indie Music in Austin 　　capitalzenaustin@gmail.com 　　myspace.com/davidnathan