The Decibels

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Hard to strictly categorize, but it's how power pop would sound if the term was still used by fans of the early period Who, Kinks and Easybeats rather than been hi-jacked by a bunch of Badfinger and Paul McCartney fans. Mid-60's influences abound, although they weren't a neo-60's band slavishly trying to recreate 1965. They tried to take those songwriting and aesthetic values and ramrod them into the late 1990s. Some say they were a Mod band, but it's usually only non-Mods that say that. There are Jam-like moments and Who-like moments, but they are filtered through American ears, so these guys don't sound British. You can tell there are also nods to '79 bands like the Romantics, the Beat and the Plimsouls but all the different things have blended together to make their own Decibels sound. In short, it's high energy guitar pop, but with their own stamp on it. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.