When George Harrison died I was wandering around the web, reading various obits, and wound up on the BBC site, which was referencing bands that had been influenced by the Beatles’ sound. One of them was this band called Dodgy - the “sun-drenched guitars of Dodgy,” quoth the BBC.

Hmmm, I thought. Sun-drenched guitars. That sounds pretty cool.

So I went looking for some Dodgy music and found that the only album the band released in North America was 1996’s Free Peace Sweet - and then only in Canada. It was available via Amazon, though, so I picked it up. It was pretty much the best album I had heard in several years; thoroughly Britpop with a bit of techo thrown in for good measure, drummer Matthew Priest came off as a ’90s version of Keith Moon, ethereal harmonies, a good bit of humor - as well as those sun-drenched guitars. I’ve since picked up the other two albums - on the MySpace page, listen to “Staying Out for the Summer” in particular.

But the most impressive tune was this one, “In a Room”; the video is semi-lame, but check out the coda, I’m still unsure as to whether there are two or three harmony vocals as it all builds to this crescendo and then bursts and dissipates. Few songs come full circle so completely, so satisfyingly; this is one of them.