Case Studies: The World Is Just A Shape To Fill The Night

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As one half of The Dutchess And The Duke, Jesse Lortz played sexy, live-fast-die-young rock songs on his zesty, endlessly chugging acoustic guitar, sounding like the Stones’ “Not Fade Away” with a touch of “As Tears Go By.” The Jagger-esque sneer Lortz brought to D&D’s material is all but absent from The World Is Just A Shape To Fill The Night, his solo album under the name Case Studies. He now sings in a low, flat croon evoking a complete emotional shutdown brought on by intense romantic trauma—or perhaps a few too many nights studying Songs Of Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, the lust has been drained from Lortz’s heart and filled with a heaping helping of lovelorn moodiness.