Dex Romweber is a bonafide icon of the American music underground. Pioneering the template for the stripped to-the-essentials guitar/drums duo format in the psycho-surf-rockabilly-garage-punk combo Flat Duo Jets — Dex continues his resurgence with the new album Is That You In The Blue? With sister Sara on drums, the Dex Romweber Duo is a potent combo that’ll get your leg twitching with the beat and your heart racing -and sometimes breaking- with the feral excitement of music.

With a mix of originals and obscure nuggets from rock and roll’s dusky back closets, the DRD romps through the sweaty cinder block studios of Memphis of the 50s, channels street corners on the wrong side of town with existential blues and instrumentals that’d find a home in a Tarantino spy flick.

For pure rock and roll at its most glorious, Dex, his vintage Silvertone guitar and Sara’s wall of sound drums kick out the jams, on Jungle Drums, the dragstrip rave-up Gurdjieff Girl and  the soundtrack for your next knife fight at the juvey home Climb Down. Hand jive to heaven to that wicked Bobby Fuller beach party groove on Wish you Would, or strut down the Rio strand to the buoyant Bossa Nova throw down Brazil.

Elsewhere, Is That You in the Blue? is colored by Dex’s broken romantic trips to the deep tunnel of un-love. From the slinky, cinematic revenge noir of The Death of Me, to the unhinged, edge of the abyss vibe of Nowhere to the jazzy, ghostly howl at the Midnight Sun, he’s on a dark and sometimes vengeful ride. And the title track has as bitter and liberating a kiss off line that’s ever been sung, the one we’ve all wished we could have come up with when she was walking out the door.

Is That You In The Blue? is released on Bloodshot Records on July 26th.