Devon Williams

After spending his early career in a variety of bands that played a variety of styles, Devon Williams focused on a solo approach that blends jangling guitars with warm synths, then layers in easygoing vocals and slyly hooky melodies. It's a rich, sophisticated sound that was founded in the mid-'80s by artists like Lloyd Cole, and Williams does a fine job carrying the torch on 2011's Euphoria and 2010's Tear in the Fabric. Williams first gained prominence with punk-pop trio Osker, who formed in 1998 when he was a sophomore in high school, and signed to Epitaph two years late...