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Jason Collett, man…what a voice. It’s enthralling and hopeful, weary and possessed of a devil-may-care drawl that does everything to emphasize his captivating, unassumingly haunting songs. That the guy can be so removed from what he does with BSS on his solo recordings and still be at the absolute top of this secondary, electro-folk-pop genre is so exciting for a music fan to see (hear?). I had the good fortune to catch him last winter at the Double Door in Chicago as he toured on the excellent Idols of Exile, which yielded one of my favorite tracks of 2005 in “Hangover Days.”

This latest offering, Here’s To Being Here, sees Collett letting his inner diva out to play a bit. Glimpses of 50’s pop and 70’s disco are all over his weatherbeaten, gritty songwriting - it’s as if Dylan got down to the Bee Gees when he thought no one was looking. As Quick, Before It Melts noted, “Jason Collett is like a stealth bomber. He flies into the airspace of your brain without you even being aware of his presence and drops a precious bomb into your cerebral cortex…Resistance is futile; surrender and let yourself go.”

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