Dampé is a rock duo from Nashville, TN, consisting of Matt Everett and Tyler Simmons The team started working together as a pop punk band in 2016 but found their sound as Dampé once they began working on Hour of the Wolf. Being a duo creating full band songs means both men wear hats. The team would pass the guitar back and forth as they co-wrote they lyrics. They’ve been featured in a few music publications such as Vents Magazine and Kill The Music. In fact, Dampé was a semi-finalist for the Music City Songstar songwriting competition for a country song they wrote. Now the band released their self-recorded album Hour of the Wolf produced from the bedroom of a suburban home.
Hour of the Wolf starts off with “Helping Hand.” The beginning has a mellow guitar playing as the words are softly spoken, “Your helping hand caught me by surprise, don’t make promises you can’t keep. You stare is laced with disapproval. All you see is everything I’ll never be.” Then drums kick in transforming the song into a frantic rock tune. Dampé continues the fast pace energy with “Pick Your Poison.” It’s a much more aggressive track but the instrumentation is enjoyable to listen to, especially the breakdown at the end of the song. If you ever felt trapped in a relationship then you can relate to “Jailbreak.” It’s another track where Dampé showcases their vocals and songwriting. “If I’m never going to live without you, it’s time to stage a jailbreak. Cast off these chains around me along with all my fear and hate.” While “Jailbreak” is about breaking free from a disastrous relationship, “Words (That Don’t Mean A Thing)” is about hanging on to the memories. It’s a much calmer song compared to the rest of albums much more angrier tone as it stays mellow all the way through. Here the duo is able to show its more gentile side with heartbreaking opening lyrics, “I don’t know how I’ll ever sleep with perfume stains my pillowcase. Can’t help but think what a waste of a perfect night, perfect life.” Dampé brings back some punk as they wrap up the album with the titled track “Hour of the Wolf.” While “Hour of the Wolf” is the longest song on the album, Dampé pace themselves allowing the song to progress. It bounces back and forth for softer moments to in your face lyrics making this their strongest song. Hour of the Wolf is a pretty nice pop-punk album from Tennessee. The instrumentations are wonderfully well done as you listen to the smooth vocals. When describing Hour of the Wolf to us Dampé stated, “Sounds like Hands Like Houses met up with Pierce The Veil and went over to I The Mighty’s house where they all got drunk and played around with some blues and ’80s pop.” Now if that doesn’t get you excited for this album then nothing will!
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