College, especially Yale college is all about a cappella. “Rush” here isn’t chatting up bros and playing beer pong (unless you’re trying out for The Baker’s Dozen) and there are more a capella groups than residential colleges. Yet with the exception of a cafellas, girl friends and groupies, a cappella is probably no one’s favorite thing to listen to.  The concerts are a good time, but we get so much of it for free that a recording of it seems, at least for me, a little bit excessive.

Enter “The Chase”, the new album by The Duke’s Men, which you can listen to for free here. The album is truly  listenable and the Doox original song “The Quickest Road”, with lyrics by Raphael Shapiro and music by Ben Wexler, is catchy and easily the best song on the album. Reuben Hendler has the voice of an angel on “Your Move”. Paul Holmes has the voice of Thor. In a duel between Miley and the Doox over who should have rights to “Party in the USA”,  the Doox would give her a really good run for her money. There are a helluva lot of songs and you can listen to them before buying the album, which I will do just to listen to “The Quickest Road” again and again and again.