The other week while driving home I caught about half of a song on WRVU and immediately, dangerously, pulled up the current playlist on wrvu.org via iphone to see what it was that I was hearing. Turns out it was Dewey Decibel, a local band that I had not heard of but was now extremely curious to hear more of. Turns out the band just released their debut album, The Dusting, and sent over a little contact email to WOTT with some mp3s. I am sold. The band manages to craft up that special blend of pop song that has an underlying forelorn (or sometimes just dark) tone to it but continues to be catchy and engaging. I’ve been playing the crap out of the four songs they sent over and look forward to picking up the full-length.. fingers crossed they’ve got some available at Grimeys.

→ Dewey Decibel – “Ice Farmers”

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I’m glad to see that the Lake Fever Sessions are willing to branch out and record sessions from musicians / artists / songwriters / what-have-you that don’t fit into the standard rock / indie-rock mold. Luisa Lopez melds country-western and soul into some dense tales of life. Joe Colvert says it best in his writeup:

These songs get to the core of what makes us human: love, lovers, loss, pain, redemption… the heaviest of subjects. These songs, well, they come with a burden.

You can hear that burden in her voice and it’s that legitimacy that keeps you listening.

• How Hard Love Is
• She Had to Go
• Together