The Revamps released their new album, Love to Lose, on a Friday night when the Hexagon Bar smelled like someone was simmering a pepperoni pizza stew in a crockpot made from unwashed gym socks.

Frontman Darren Harff has an able studio voice, stretching out, inflating, and then flattening his words for extra syllables of alt-country twang. "I make you an offer, one you can't deny/When every little cri-ime/Seems fine." But the catchy could-be-Jay Farrar-ness of the record wasn't always apparent onstage, where the trio's instruments and the vocals seemed to disagree on matters of key.

"We've got a few more songs to do, and then we gotta go—we've got to milk cows in the morning," Harff said, as if we didn't notice the Hex staff force-quitting the night by turning on all the lights. Still, the Revamps make my Car Day party list, because 1) "Little Crimes" would be a great highway song; and 2) drummer Ryan Anderson is a giant who could probably push my car to safety, assuming I could convince him to take a momentary break from beating his kit like he's pounding the bones of an Englishman into meal.