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Audrye Sessions
Audrye Sessions
(Black Seal Records)
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The Oakland quartet Audrye Sessions' much-anticipated self-titled debut is packed with propulsive rock songs and gentle, stripped-down tunes with the kind of ear-grabbing melodies that instantly hard-wire themselves into your brain.








