MATT DRISCOLL: THE ENCHANTED REALM OF THE PINK WIDOWER >>>

Officially, summer isn’t quite over yet. By my count we’ve still have 10 days left. The weather outside seems to support this fact, though we all know what’s coming. Football already fills the TV on Sundays, and in no time at all autumn colored leaves will be on the ground and temperatures will dip. Before we know it we’ll be in the midst of nine more months of rain.

Either aware of this fact or oblivious to it â€" depending on how you look at it â€" Portland’s Pink Widower may have the answer. With the release of The Enchanted Realm of the Pink Widower, which will officially “drop” â€" as they say in the bizz â€" on Oct. 14, Pink Widower seems to be looking to hold off the drear and precipitation so common here in the Northwest with 10 tracks of sunny, breezy sonic goodness.

While The Enchanted Realm won’t officially hit shelves until next month, a copy arrived here at Weekly Volcano World Headquarters sometime earlier this month. With the bite of fall only moments away, now seems like as good a time as any to give the disc a spin in my CD player and offer up a few words of review over at weeklyvolcano.com.