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Handsome Devil is the latest band to emerge out of the Orange County, California music scene. While Orange County is an upper middle class suburban sprawl of ![]() Musically Handsome Devil is what you get if you mixed The Offspring with Lit and The Living End. While posers like Blink-182 have given the burgeoning punk-pop scene a bad name, Handsome Devil seem poised to rescue the genre from the over popification it has ![]() You hear tales of overnight success stories in the music business, most times these stories involve a band that had been breaking their butts on the club scene for ![]() ![]() Together they struck gold, as this CD is
a collection of songs just crying out to become hits. While there isn't
a "filler" track in the bunch some songs are more equal than others with
standouts including "Sorry Charlie", "Tie Me Up", "Everything", "Back in
Action" and "Barbecue". Then again, I've listened to this disc a couple
dozen times so far and have yet to push the fast-forward button. In other
words, it's all good.
Ah but let's get back to the album. "We knew what we were aiming for," says
frontman Danny Walker. "We wanted our record to sound huge and, at the
same time, still have the raw energy of our live show." Did they succeed?
While nothing can compare to the energy of a live performance, Handsome
Devil did in fact pack a little extra something into the album that does
capture a bit of the "lightning in jar" energy of their live performance.
Co-producer Jeremy Popoff explains how they What else can I say,"Love & Kisses
From the Underground" is a bombastic mix of guitars and vocal hooks presented
in well crafted songs that go far beyond the call of duty to bring some
respect back to the "punk-pop" scene by injecting it with a large measure
of credibility it has been missing over the past few years. Handsome Devil
is definitely a band that deserves the attention of the record buying public.
Handsome
Devil � Love & Kisses From the Underground
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