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The Secret Handshake is tagged as: electronic, electronica, powerpop, indie, alternative

Drums that sound straight off Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack? Check. Guitar solo that harkens back to Uncle Jesse from Full House? Check. Tambourines? Check. Fade outs on nearly every song? Check. That nagging feelings that it’s 1995 and you need to hurry home in time for The Wonder Years? Check.
The elements that comprise The Secret Handshake’s new album, My Name Up In Lights, aren’t complicated or out of the ordinary. Instead Dallas musician Luis Dubuc has built a collection of songs that embraces an unabashed pop sensibility, drawing on the ‘90s to inspire the disc’s feel-good energy and playful mood. The record follows the success of The Secret Handshake’s previous album—2007’s One Full Year—with more streamlined intent and clarity of vision. “My first record was 14 songs and it was all over the place,” Dubuc says. “It was like looking in my brain. It was full of ideas and all the songs sounded different. This record is really narrowed down. It’s really influenced by Family Matters and Step By Step and the Ninja Turtles and Len and Spacehog and awesome ‘90s radio music. I just narrowed all those influences down and put them into a record.”
Dubuc, who started The Secret Handshake in 2004, began writing songs and compiling demos for a new alb...
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Top 10 The Secret Handshake Songs
I Wish
Summer of '98
Coastal Cities
Everyone Knows Everyone
Too Young
Don't Call
Midnight Movie
Wanted You
Don't Count On Me
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One Full Year
Summer Of '98
My Name Up In Lights
This Is Bigger Than You And I Ep
Antarctica
This Is Bigger Than You And I
Gamegirl
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