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JamBase live review – It’s hard to think of another band quite like rock power trio Devi who blend the cleverness and intricacy of a good jam band with the catchiness of vintage power pop, the awareness and relevance of punk and the occasional smirking metal flourish…
Guitar International CD review – It isn’t often that I come across an album that’s so good I have to listen to it multiple times in a row. When I sat down to check out Devi’s album Get Free I found myself doing just that…
Good Times magazine CD review – Equal parts earth mother, sex siren, Hendrix-inspired guitarist, and all-out rocker, Debra leads Devi in 11 wonderfully under-produced tracks that never let up.This Jersey City trio seems to get hotter by the day and it’s not hard to figure why…
Lucid Culture CD review – This album has pretty much everything a band ought to deliver: catchy, melodic songs, gorgeously soaring vocals, killer musicianship and a centerpiece that’s a genuine classic.
Midwest Record – A sense of humor, swagger, blistering guitar chops, looks, the smarts to fuse niche with mass market and a fertile, facile mind—doesn’t anybody with check writing capabilities at the major labels realize Deb is a freaking rock star that would pack them in old school style if you knew how to break records and acts anymore? An utterly bad ass power trio that knows how to jam on much more than thunder thud, this stuff ought to be the new sound of the city, the new sound of the suburbs and has the snazz to be the first real rock break out in a long time. With chops fermented organically, betcha given half the chance this band breaks out ala Band of Gypsies. This is chick driven cock rock that sets pent up, raging hormones free.
Crusher interview – Debra’s deep, space-rocking guitar tone, her furious unvarnished leads and earnest soul-searching experimentation during the most expansive of her guitar solos, all raise the stakes to a level more ambitious than Sheryl Crow could ever contemplate.
Guitar International interview – What set Debra apart from many of her female counterparts is her passion for the guitar – lead guitar. In time she would form DEVI, a group that steers toward rock storytelling that can be hauntingly melodic rock.
Friggin Fabulous Radio Podcast/Interview – Debra is one of the best female guitarists and vocalist out there. If you like Joan Jett, Jimi Hendrix, Blondie and Television, you’re going to love Devi!
Tinfoil Music - Devi serves up a fabulous brand of rock: steaming hot and unpretentious featuring top-shelf musicianship, great song-writing, great melodies, foot-stomping grooves, gorgeous vocals, and one mean guitar.
Banned Promotions interview – So as I write this interview I am sitting here in my easy chair blasting, I mean BLASTING “When It Comes Down” off of Get Free and it’s totally giving me this fuzzed out stoner rock vibe and yet I don’t know that I’ve EVER heard a female singing in a stoner band. I’m in musical heaven right now.
Lucid Culture asks for Deb’s Top 10 albums – This falls into the “ask an expert” category. Debra, who plays lead guitar and fronts the ferocious, psychedelic power trio Devi knows a thing or two about guitar – she’s one of the most uniquely individual, virtuosic stylists of this era. Here are the ten albums that really hook her up…
LMNOP/Baby Sue - Get Free is all about melodies. Unlike many underground bands who try to be super aggressive and noisy, these three folks play songs that are purely melodic and hummable. Their ultra-catchy tunes are unashamedly commercial sounding and recorded with the just right amount of studio polish. Debra has a great smooth voice and on those occasions when she turns her guitar up and lets lead lines rip…she proves that she can compete with any guys out there.
Metro Spirit - Devi impresses with a great debut…“Get Free” sounds similar to Stone Temple Pilot’s “Creep.” Devi even takes a chance remaking Neil Young’s “The Needle and the Damage Done” and the results deserve an honorable nod from the legend…
Junior’s Cave - Get Free is an instant masterpiece. From the very moment that I heard my first track, “Another Day”, I instantly became a fan…
Parla l’italiano? PDF of Italian press. Click here for full English translations of Italian reviews excerpted below:
Marie Claire Italy – They say rock is dead and it probably is true. This does not prevent Devi from playing rocknroll with a beautiful and heartfelt passion.
L’Unita – Keep an eye on this group. Devi has debuted with a fresh and sparkling album, melodic and with a giant rock sound…
Rumore - Among the most beautiful things on this recording is not only a gorgeous cover of Neil Young “The Needle and the Damage Done”, but also an extraordinary song called “Another Day”…
Audiovideofoto – Something tells us we are witnessing the birth of a rock star…
Rockstar - Sounds like: Runaways, Cream, Pretenders, Sheryl Crow. Expect rock pieces with the right riffs and a lot of vintage style…
Metal Manaic – Poised between Suzi Quatro, Sheryl Crow and Foo Fighters, the band demonstrates good songwriting that will surely lead in the charts…
Jam – Spontaneous, sunny, unaffected…
Metal Hammer – Devi is a new band and from the cover design they are clearly far from metal. But inside Get Free is a soul deep and dark that has smitten our impenetrable heart of iron.
Alias – a disc that would be happy in the ranks of any rocker…
Beat – an endearing fusion between the melodic finesse of Sheryl Crow and the energy of the rough rock of Queens of the Stone Age. Get Free talks about love, religion, sex and drugs, all the elements that affect the human experience on earth. Listen, you won’t be disappointed!
