After spending his early career in a variety of bands that played a variety of styles, when he went solo, Devon Williams focused on an approach that blends jangling guitars with warm synths, then layers in easy-going 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 albums like 2011's Euphoria and 2010's Tear in the Fabric.