"'Mercy Killings' is a towering achievement of a record, but there’s no doubt some will be turned off by its stubborn refusal to follow a clear trajectory. That’d be a fair criticism if Scott Ryan didn’t pull off each of his ideas with the aplomb of someone twice his age, but he’s that rare burgeoning songwriter who seems to have found that congenital understanding of how to temper innovation with prudence. Plus, you don’t find rookies who write words like these..."~DOA Music Blogproduced by Caleb Ingersoll, Robert Delong and Scott Ryan