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Nov 06, 2009 Lightspeed Champion By Laura Studarus

Former Test Icicles rocker Dev Hynes is back with his second album under the Lightspeed Champion moniker. Out Febuary 16th on Domino Records, Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You is described in a press release as being, “a palette that draws on baroque ‘60s pop, Girl Group harmonies, classical music and even musical theatre.”

Flaunting his range, Hynes has included two instrumental intermissions and a piano étude in addition to more traditionally structured pop songs.

Track list:

1. Dead Head Blues

2. Marlene

3. There’s Nothing Underwater

4. Intermission

5. Faculty of Fears

6. The Big Guns of Highsmith

7. Romart

8. I Don’t Want to Wake Up Alone

9. Madame Van Damme

10. Smooth Day (At the Library)

11. Intermission 2

12. Sweetheart

13. Etude Op.3 ‘Goodnight Michalek’

14. Middle of the Dark

15. A Bridge and a Goodbye

(www.lightspeedchampion.com)