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 IGUANAS – If You Should Ever Fall on Hard Times
BIRD YORK
Wicked Little High
GOT A GIRL
I love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now
THE WATSON TWINS
TALKING TO YOU, TALKING TO ME
the hylozoists
la fin du monde
Tristen
Caves
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