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 RuthROCKIN' JASON D. WILLIAMS
HILLBILLIES AND HOLY ROLLERS
THE AUTUMN DEFENSE
Once Around
Glen Phillips
Winter Pays for Summer
ISIDORE
Life Somewhere Else
STEVE WYNN AND THE MIRACLE THREE
…tick…tick…tick
Summer Cannibals
Full Of It
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