Denver Westword Dec 28/2000

Dan Bryk -- Lovers Leap
(Scratchie)

Bryk understands the pop verities (inescapable melodies, bouncy chord patterns), but he also knows that lyrics attuned to today, not yesterday, are what can make his hooks stick. Hence he introduces Lovers Leap with "Mark Turmell V2.0," in which he recounts how, as a teenager, he idolized a computer geek who was "the coolest programmer in the entire fucking world," and follows it with a dozen other singular oddities that go from funny to sad to weird at warp speed. Take a Leap; you won't regret it. -- Michael Roberts