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 RuthMoby
Last Night
Al and the Black Cats
Shakin At The Knees
STEVE WYNN AND THE MIRACLE THREE
…tick…tick…tick
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Ballad Of The Broken Seas
KEANE
Perfect Symmetry
THE DIAMOND UNDERGROUND
Serve the Song
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