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
THE BROKEN WEST
Now or Heaven
DELTA SPIRIT
History From Below
Space Vs. Time
The Old and New Avant-Garde
VARIOUS ARTISTS
JOHNNY CASH REMIXED
JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW
Early in the Morning
THE IGUANAS – If You Should Ever Fall on Hard Times
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