2009-05-31
Out of Portland, duo-used-to-be, Viva Voce is now a quartet for its second album on Barsuk Records. Combining guy-girl harmonies with dreamy guitar and dark lyrics, Viva Voce offers and ambient shoegaze-pop sound. This album was written, arranged and recorded within a month for an immediate sound. Best songs are the country-noir "Red Letter Day" and "Die A Little" with its cool "oooh, oooh, oooh" refrain. Nothing here beats "Devotion", though, the album's opener. Rebecca RuthGlen Phillips
Winter Pays for Summer
Mansions On The Moon
Mansions on the Moon
OF MONTREAL
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Brett Newski
Land Air Sea Garage
ELLIOT SMITH
New Moon
Various Artists
Catch and Release (Soundtrack)
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