While the distorted feedback of the “Tempe Sound” echoed through Mill Avenue, catapulting bands like The Refreshments and Jimmy Eat World into the national psyche, Dawn Kerlin was across town, seeking a more interior frequency. Nestled in a nondescript Sunnyslope strip mall, squeezed between the rhythmic hum of a laundromat and the desert heat, Kerlin and the 2 da Groove production duo were perfecting a different kind of heaviness born of brokenhearted fortune and the discipline of the chosen. These 1996 recordings, unearthed from the Fervor Records vaults, map the contrast between the Tempe scene’s post-grunge distortion and the unchartered road of the self, proving that even in a funky storefront studio, the soul still unravels. This three-track manifesto remains a definitive document of mid-90s sophisticated pop… a “lost” masterwork of blue-eyed soul that found its sublime rhythm just a few feet away from the spin cycle.