Dirty on Purpose
Hallelujah Sirens
North Street Records
Grade: A-
Soon after getting this debut album from Brooklyn’s Dirty on Purpose, I was in Chapel Hill for vaca and managed to catch the band with a short show. A litany of consequences led to this visual, which takes to long to explain, but what I took away from the show was two things: these guys are really good and the main lead singer Joseph Jurewicz soft vocals needed a little enlivening live. And these two main images are immediately played out on the opener “No Radio” and sets the tone for the following ten songs of soft space-rock that cross a wide range of influences. Jurewicz (also on guitar) is joined on Hallelujah Sirens by drummer/vocalist Doug Marvin, guitarist/vocalist, and DJ Boudreau on bass. By now, several months after the record’s release, you have probably run into one of Dirty on Purpose’s songs without knowing it. Foremost and most likely, is “Light Pollution” with its U2-like guitars (or for that matter Explosions-like guitars), harmonies and matching vocal play; the type of song that gets stuck in your cranium for days. Just hit repeat on “Light Pollution” to allow enough time for the song to settle in forever. But, it is not as if Dirty on Purpose only have one magic pony under their belt. Besides from “No Radio” and “Light Pollution,” “Your Summer Dress,” “Car No Driver,” and “Marfa Lights” fill you belly with glee. When you see Dirty on Purpose live forget about stage presence and just focus on the music.
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