You may have read about Fay Wray’s “excessively dirty room” a couple of weeks ago in an article about Residential Life’s dorm inspections, but now they are too busy to clean up since they just released their new CD, “The Sweet Life.”

The release was kicked off in Fay Wray fashion with a high-energy party at the Hi-Ho Lounge. The enthusiastic and appreciative crowd, partly made up of Loyola students and music fans, was treated to a well-crafted set of the band’s old and new tracks.

“The Sweet Life” explores Fay Wray’s varied style from track to track, with each song showing a different side of the band. “Crime of the Century” is your typical rock song, while “The Hunger” and “Ill Tempered Comments” are songs so catchy that you find yourself trying to get them out of your head – meaning they must be doing something right. Fay Wray changes things up by ending with “Night Flower,” a pleasant surprise that shows off the jazzy side of the band and its members.

Things are just now heating up for the “ol’ FW.” Fay Wray is unique and not quite like any other college band out there, proving that by having just won LSU’s Battle of the Bands. When asked what they thought their musical style was, they said “protoabstractica,” meaning rock without guitar, and they do just that.

Fay Wray is made up of Kevin Corcoran, mass communication junior, on piano and lead vocals, Stephen MacDonald, music industries sophomore, on saxophone, Michael Girardot, music industries senior, playing trumpet and occasional ukulele, Patrick Fee, jazz studies junior, on drums and Charlie Dillingham, music senior, playing bass and banjo.

The inspiration for the album, according to MacDonald, is “space and heaven,” while Corcoran claims that they want to “say something about modern condition and go somewhere nobody has gone before.”

If you’re dying to get your hands on a copy of Fay Wray’s “The Sweet Life,” just go to Carrollton 511 or the trunk of Stephen’s car. If you like Fay Wray, you should definitely check out The City Life, Greg Vendetti and Lucy Gossett. Just don’t ask them to help clean your dorm room.

Carolyn Sierichs can be reached at [email protected].