Blog: Ear It Now

Paul Dempsey's first solo album, Everything Is True out now: If the flagrant parodoxical title of this album wasn’t enough to intrigue me, then this album hooked me with the melodic surge into the first chorus. At first his voice seemed somewhat generic for my liking, creeping too close to radio-melted pop and stereotypically angsty. But then, there’s a crescendo of lyrics and melody in “Bats,” that leads into the most misleading lyrical hook I’ve ever heard: “Nobody’s ever gonna break your heart again.” And he’s singing it so [...]