(Pod/Inertia)

Lo-fi high fives 

On his debut album Romancing, Brooklyn-bred singer-songwriter Devin serves up a smorgasbord of lo-fi guitars, danceable rock rhythms and lyrics about girls, going out and doing all the fun things your parents tell you not to do. It’s a collection of three and four-minute songs that kick straight into action with fast rock beats, frenetically strummed guitars and howled vocals. Both Devin’s music and aesthetic are heavily influenced by late ‘50s and early ‘60s rock & roll. The songs here filled with the same straight to the point rollicking rhythms as classic ol’ timey artists like Bill Haley and Chuck Berry, repackaged and played a little faster and louder for a younger generation. Even the titles are classic rock & roll: You’re Mine, Born to Cry, I’m Not A Fool, I Was Your Boy and Ruthie all look like they’d be right at home on the back of one of those The Absolute Complete Very Very Best Total Collection Of Hits From The Sixties! CDs you see lying around at your grandparents’ place. It’s not an album with a great deal of variety and probably won’t be worth listening to more than a half a dozen times, but there are 14 tracks and 48 minutes worth of good times right here, and plenty of opportunity for broom handle microphone bedroom lip syncing. If you’re into that kind of thing. Which I’m not. Obviously. Because that would be embarrassing.

**1/2

JOSH DONELLAN

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