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Naysayers who believe power pop isn’t capable of communicating serious musical art will have their dubious theorizing put to the test by Little Hurt’s Lovely Hours. Make no mistake, however; songwriter Colin Dieden isn’t writing high-flown flowery poetry. The lyrics for Lovely Hours’ ten cuts are gritty, sometimes profane, ribald, and …

To say it’s been an experimental year for the pop underground at home and abroad might not be doing it enough justice, and in few tracks is this theme captured as well as it is in the new single “Buttercup” from Little Hurt. Featuring The Ready Set in a credible …

Pop music doesn’t often come as diverse and wide-open with possibility as Little Hurt’s “Cooler If U Did”. It also deserves credit, maybe, for pulling the wool over my eyes. The song title immediately raised my suspicions that what I’d be encountering was a bird-bath shallow pop tune with some …

The harmonies in Little Hurt’s new single and music video “Alaska” are both broodingly aggressive in spots while being light and feathery in others, but no matter how much of a punch he’s putting into his vocal, singer/songwriter Colin Dieden isn’t backing down from the challenge of turning us on with tonal …