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Better late than never… (but I come bearing video)<\/em><\/p>\n So who says a band can\u2019t achieve huge success on its own terms? No \u201cformula\u201d. No concern about demographics (unless there\u2019s a new genre called \u201cEastern-European-Gypsy-Mariachi-Southwestern-Desert-Polka-Pop\u201d). DeVotchKa<\/a> is deliciously uncompromising, with a wildly unique sound and globetrotting vision. What we have here is a phenomenally gifted group of musicians doing what comes naturally, with increasingly larger audiences (such as their Paris stadium show with Muse for 90,000 last year) delighting in the exotic experience. <\/p>\n Tragically sad, gloriously triumphant, and may I just say this: Nick Urata can seriously wail on a bouzouki. Shredding electric guitar solos are one thing\u2026 but a bouzouki? Oh yes. And then there are those dreamy romantic vocals that had everyone in the Paradise swooning. He\u2019d switch to a mournful whistling straight off the prairie, and we were suddenly in a spaghetti-western groove for \u201cThe Enemy Guns\u201d, sensuous and mysterious. A bit later on, they would all get going on a jam, dual drums pounding away, stand-up bass, and Nick just going at it on that bouzouki\u2026 and never mind the mariachi tune they just played, or the German polka, or the sousaphone, accordion and violin\u2026 this was a f*cking ROCK BAND. They\u2019re everything, really, and it all works. All of it.<\/p>\n