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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 Ruth
LUKE DOUCET
Broken (and other rogue states)
PHOENIX
It's Never Been Like That
OKKERVIL RIVER
The Stage Names
THE LONG WINTERS
Putting the Days to Bed
THE PARTIES
Can't Come Down
Heidi Talbot
In Love & Light
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