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"If the persistent drone of auto-tune has you down, you might want to check out Sallie Ford &amp; the Sound Outside \u2014 whose debut album has a distinctly retro sound.\n\"Sometimes I feel like I connect with an older generation, and I wish I could have lived in older times,\" Ford says of the video for \"I Swear\" (above), featured on the band's first full-length disc, Dirty Radio [iTunes link], which drops Monday.\n\"Whenever somebody asks me what Sallie Ford &amp; the Sound Outside is like, after trying to explain it's got a little throwback rock sound, I'd say that anyone could like them,\" says the video's director, Matthew Ross. \"High schoolers, hipsters, parents or even my grandparents could hear them and really enjoy it. They're kind of timeless. So I thought showing them playing throughout the generations of the rock genre would be a perfect fit.\"\nFord took a while to find that throwback rock sound. \"I did a lot of singing with my family,\" she says. \"We would go on road trips and sing a lot of rounds. So I've always been encouraged to sing, and I've always been fascinated with harmony, but never really thought about singing until I decided to create a voice of my own.\"\nThat voice \u2014 a cross between Ella Fitzgerald and Tom Waits \u2014 was solidified in 2006. When asked how she got that unique sound, Ford replied: \"I was a weird kid, I would do a lot of imitating \u2014 like Donald Duck and Pee-Wee Herman.\" \nWe're glad she kept up the experimentation process past the Looney Tunes phase."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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