Daniel Francis Doyle accompanies his own live-recorded guitar loops with powerfully tumbling drum beats, while belting out vocals through a headset microphone that clings on for dear life. With so many “one man bands” vying for your scant DIY dollars of late, it’s hard to find one that actually pursues the idea beyond the realm of novelty. Doyle’s intense live sets feature almost embarrassingly candid lyrical content combined with a voluminous guitar scratch that pushes the solo concept into a loud and uncomfortable place.

His debut LP, “Who Are Your Customers?”, was released on Furniture Records in 2006. With seven songs in seventeen minutes, it was an excellent, brief and brutal document of Doyle’s live act. His newest full length for Dallas blog/record label, We Shot JR, is called “We Bet Our Money On You”. Twice as long as his debut, it’s an astonishingly ambitious record, featuring not only the harsh and destructive roar he’s known for, but also more meticulously treated guitar loops, memorable melodies, and even songs that could be described as pop.

“…Doyle is a dude from Austin who loops insanely fucked up, angular guitar riffs that still have a sort of Minutemen-esque bounce to them. Then he plays drums and sings/screams into a headset mic, cueing the loops with his foot. It fucking destroys. This song is from his Who Are Your Customers EP, and it is nothing short of being one of the most brutal break up songs ever. Pure noise and screaming “come back” till you need a voice box sells me way more than some wistful acoustic guitar bullshit. I think this the most openly emotionally moving noise song I have ever heard.” – Jake Duzsik of HEALTH on Daniel Francis Doyle’s “Head Up”