Devon Williams

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1325 E. Madison St.
Seattle, WA 98122

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Capitol Hill

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Euphoria, the second solo album from former SoCal punk band Osker vocalist and guitarist Devon Williams, is aptly named, if we're going by sound alone. The music is all buoyant melodies, light and lively guitar riffs, and cute, chirpy vocals. Listen to the words Williams is singing, though, and things start to wilt. “Lately, I can't get your sympathy,” he muses on the single “Your Sympathy.” “So grey, so unhappy/Wonder how it is it caught me,” he mourns on “Right Direction.” Lyrically speaking, there isn't a single uplifting song on the record. What's with the contrast? Williams cleverly leaves a key in the fourth track, “Dreaming”—“Euphoria in turning from the world/Waiting for something more.” In other words, his state of bliss wasn't in the brooding subjects of the songs, it was in the loving, encompassing process of creating them. With Craft Spells, Seapony, Wet Illustrated. ERIN K. THOMPSON
Sun., Nov. 20, 8 p.m., 2011