Ethan Durelle, hope for the Texas Indie Scene

The soft repetition of electric guitar riffs rises slowly over the crowd. Every drunk and sober person in the room suddenly comes to a hush. They're not quite sure why, but this song has something hidden in its simplicity that is far more important than petty conversation. The singers face contorts slightly as he draws in a steep breath waiting an eternity to begin revealing the inner thoughts of his mind. Through a cloud of smoke his voice cuts like a knife, "I woke up way too early again, the sound of 300 car horns in brain..." As the people standing awestruck begin to siphon through the emotion laden lyrics, they suddenly realize that they all have felt everything that he is talking about. "It's the simple things in life you keep forgetting when you're thinking about how hard life is, you're getting old, you're getting gray, and in between the color and the age you won't remember anyway... anyway." This scene has been repeated at every show Ethan Durelle has played at. In some cases, though rarely, some have even broken down to that song known as Two Sunrises. Though Ethan Durelle is not new in the Dallas area indie scene they are hardly as appreciated as they deserve. Threading together at times complexity with the simplicity of a single guitar riff, they create musical sound-scapes that evoke more passion and emotion than your average band. This sets them apart from almost every other band in the Dallas area. At all points beautiful and mysterious the listener struggles to completely ingest all that singer Evan Lecker lays on their ear-drums. At times five or six listens to the cd versions of the songs are necessary to completely understand all that is being sonically conveyed. Though there is no question that the indie scene will soon fall apart and or be swallowed alive by the corporate monster, there is hope. Bands such as The New Frontiers, Meryll, and Ethan Durelle are holding high the torch of freedom, complexity, and creativity in music. I would encourage everyone to buy Ethan Durelle's latest album, "Talks to the Dark" on iTunes.