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Listen to "Wyatt's Torch," the new album from Lake Orion's Julie Genevis, and you'd expect something other than the perky, smiling singer-flute-sax-keyboard player out of Oakland University you encounter. Genevis classifies her collection of self-penned songs "progressive pop, but with a classical touch." If you want to play the sound game, she's not far from Canadian angst-bird Sarah McLachlan. "Wyatt's Torch" follows a career of school bands, playing weddings, teaching young musicians in private lessons, recording sessions backing other artists and corporate parties, plus some serious song writing. "I've written over 200 songs," Genevis said, with "Torch" being the first widely available airing. Genevis pegs the cut "Goddess" as the most commercial sounding on the nine-tune disc, all done with Genevis' impressive layered musical artistry. Genevis' work probably best fits an adult aternative album station, but the Detroit market's devoid of that sort of radio station right now. "They won't play it on the radio, so I have to appear on talk shows," guesting on the recent Mitch Albom and just-canceled Bill Thomas shows. Those whe've tried it liked it, Genevis says. "Just a wide range of people like it; the people who like it really love it."