
Meet the Oakland quartet Audrye Sessions. Their self-titled debut on Black Seal (released earlier this year) is packed with polished, propulsive rock songs & gentle, stripped-down tunes with the kind of ear-grabbing melodies that instantly hard-wire themselves into your brain. Recorded with Andrew Scheps (U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash) & Matt Radosevich (The Hives, Taking Back Sunday), the album is anchored by Ryan Karazija's remarkable voice, which is whisper vulnerable one minute, roiling with emotion the next and easily slips into a smooth falsetto. Audrye Sessions arrived when bassist Alicia Marie Campbell met Karazija, who was [...]