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
Paul McCartney
Good Evening New York City
PEGGY SUE
Choir of Echoes
Chuck Prophet
Age of Miracles
GRANDFATHER CHILD
Grandfather Child
MATTHEW RYAN VS. THE SILVER STATE
Matthew Ryan Vs. The Silver State
THE BEARS
Eureka
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