Secret Dakota Ring
"Cantarell"
Serious Business

AUGUSTA, GA - With members in both Los Angeles and New York, Secret Dakota Ring release their long anticipated follow up to 2005’s "Do Not Leave Baggage All The Way" with their newest album "Cantarell."  One part Classical music and three parts soft pop music, much in the vein of the early ‘60s bubblegum bands, Secret Dakota Ring possess a new style not heard often in modern rock. 

Nine songs full of sweet pop flavor, Cantarell presents the soft sounds of classical musicianship on such songs as “They Got the Wrong Guy,” but combines that with tinkling, catchy sunshine pop on songs like “The Fade to Black.” Andy Ross, Travis Harrison, Josh Kaufman and Assaf Spector have kept Secret Dakota Ring alive music swapping using an FTP site as well as the United States Post Office, much in the way indie-pop stars The Postal Service did. 

“Losing Eyeballs” has that same signature style of Secret Dakota Ring, much like the Turtles or some of the other wacky pop bands of the ‘60s. The interesting edge to SDR’s music also brings to mind the more left-of-center sound of the garage bands of the past such as the Standells or Question Mark and the Mysterians. “I Blew Myself Up Over You” even has a little of that early, mod-era Beatles to it.

Catchy, light and fun, Secret Dakota Ring leave the seriousness of rock ‘n’ roll at the door and invite in a reminder of the roots of pop music. Silly and entertaining, the well-crafted "Cantarell" leaves the listener in a good mood when it comes to an end but not empty inside either.