Many artists have used pandemic time to get creative and crank out an album within the course of a few months. Some have used this time to revisit projects that they have previously abandoned. In the case of doublepluspop, the four-piece revisited the project that was supposed to be their debut album, a collection of tracks that has been sitting in a vault since 2002. Frontman Paul Averitt formed doublepluspop sometime between the late ’90s and early 2000s after leaving his Denton (TX) band Big Big Drama. He wanted to create a band that strictly played power-pop, a genre he says wasn’t popular at the time. “There wasn’t a lot of that type of music being played in Dallas,” Averitt says, “and I wanted to try to explore that genre in this town. Dallas isn’t really a power-pop haven, but it’s what I wanted to do at the time, and I’m proud of the work we did.” — Dallas Observer
Now, that almost-20-year-old album is finally out, and it’s killer: strong writing, singing and playing, across multiple styles, and a world’s first: all TuneLings for this excellent record were made by Jon Lenzer, the band’s guitarist, and include his own lead guitar parts as well as chords, fills, and comments. This is essentially a whole semester’s course in very fine rock guitar playing, with songs that should never have been stuck in a vault for a minute, let alone decades.