Indie singer-songwriter Dana Why, aka Dana Yurcisin, released his debut album, The Lyre, a few days ago. Self-produced, mixed, and mastered, the album stretches across 15 tracks. Commenting on the album’s inspiration, Dana says, “‘The Lyre’ is as much of a breakup album about a person as it is about a place. I can trace its origins back to three life-altering events that all went down within roughly a year and a half from one another, from early 2015 to late 2016: a broken engagement, a move back home to New Jersey from Maine, and the start and end of the following relationship. I was unmotivated regarding anything except getting high and cranking out an obscene amount of demos.” Over the ten years from 2009 to 2019, Dana released four albums as Static Sex. In 2020, he started dropping mus...