Devics - Push the Heart I’ve been listening to “Push the Heart”, the new album by “Devics”:http://devics.com, for the past week, over and over and over again, so that I’m quite sure that I love this album. But why? WHYYYY?

DON’T KNOOOOW.

…Well, that’s a bit of a lie. The album is very pretty in that sad/eerie/happy way, if that makes any sense (probably not). Members Sara Lov and Dustin O’Halloran have beautiful, soft voices that go very well with the…beautiful, soft music (that makes more sense, but still sounds moronic). Sara sings solo on most of the songs except for the duets “Song for a Sleeping Girl” and “If We Cannot See”, whose words and music are written by Dustin, as opposed to the other songs whose music is by Dustin and words, by Sara. Take a listen:

Devics – Song For a Sleeping Girl [removed]

I _do_ want to fall asleep to this song. Outside. Breezy. Squirrels. …Wait, no squirrels; they’re annoying. Reminds me a bit of Yo La Tengo for some reason. This song eases the throbbing on the side of my head. That’s a good thing.

I’m going to pluck words from “Janet’s”:http://www.escapingwords.com/ review at “kevchino”:http://www.kevchino.com/index.aspx?review=817. Sweet, sad and bitter: yup. Mazzy Star: a bit. Waltz beat: sleepy goodness. Radiohead-esque “Just One Breath”: uber (Paranoid Android-esque to be more specific).

I’d upload more songs I like, but I like _all of them_. ALL. It’s probably sad that I’m genuinely surprised that I like an entire album, lead by a female singer (it’s much easier for me to get into male singers for whatever reason)…but I can’t explain it. Actually, if I do have to pick another favorite song, I’d go with “A Secret Message to You”, which features a toy piano, accordian, glockenspiel, and tappy sounding percussive objects. You don’t even have to listen to it to know it’s awesome.

The album comes out on March 7th. “Get a copy”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E3LFZM.

**EDIT:** More places to hear songs from the album:

* “Their official site”:http://www.devics.com/index.php?galleryNum=3&currentNum=0&showImage=true (click on “mp3 player” in the top navigation)
* “rbally”:http://www.rbally.net/2006/01/devics.html put up two mp3s
* “Devics on myspace”:http://www.myspace.com/devics (OH GOD, NOT MYSPACE…I mean…yay, _myspace_)