Dan Bryk
Lovers Leap (teenage USA)

WAS THAT ARTO Lindsay you were listening to, my housemate asked? No, but I had to give that some thought. I guess down a hallway and through a closed door, Dan Bryk might sound like Arto Lindsay. Up close, Dan Bryk sounds like Dan Bryk. No one sounds like Dan Bryk. And Dan Bryk doesn't sound like anyone else. He's really too distinctive to. Well, I was trying to figure out whether this song was about molestation or masturbation, my girlfriend mused. We were listening to Dan Bryk's song "Fingers". I think it's molestation, I said, but I don't really want to think about it.

Shouldn't I have found that tasteless? The funny thing was I didn't. I don't know why either. It's something about Dan Bryk. I thought about compiling a list of all of the things that I think about Dan Bryk now that I have listened to Lovers Leap. Near the top of the list would be things like: He sings about the Spadina Expressway and Mississauga transit. Near the bottom would be things like: He can't really sing, but he tries very hard and Moxy Fruvous-whom I dislike on principle-appear on his disc. But after considering the list, I realised that it would be much too long to include in a CD review. Instead I will say this about Lovers Leap: I liked it. It was interesting.

ROB THOMAS