CD of The Week

So you’re looking for that first fresh sound of 2015 you say? Well, perhaps it’s Purple, three rowdy Texans who sounds like they’re just having a blast making music that that’s not perfectly polished and wears its variety of influences on its sleeve, while coming together to sound like its own unique beast. Their debut album (409) is sometimes punky, but always spunky, sounding like it’s straight outta 1995 and 2005 at the same time.

With two lead singers in drummer Hannah Brewer and guitarist Taylor Busby, you’d expect each of their voices to be compared to someone else, but I definitely hear multiple notable vocalists channeled by each of them. Hannah specifically at times goes between sounding like Louise Post of Veruca Salt, Gwen Stefani of No Doubt, and Brody Dalle of The Distillers, while Taylor definitely has some Frank Black moments.

You've probably already heard us play the lead single “Wallflower,” but there are definitely plenty more fun tunes here like “Double Nickels,” “Beach Buddy,” and “DMT” (which they just released a video for). While the band is touring Europe this month, we're hoping they'll come to Philly soon, where they simply must play with our own local pals Purples.