The third album from Portland's Viva Voce is a markedly dark and sultry record, epic in scope. An underlying deftness of arrangement and composition supports their melange of fuzzed-out psych, infectious melody, and hand-clap breakdowns that sound almost like more pop-focused Sonic Youth if Kim and Thurston's main influences were Pink Floyd and Grandaddy.

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VINYL FORMAT. Includes two bonus tracks not available with the CD or download! Pressed on high quality 180 gram vinyl. Comes with a coupon for a digital download of the album. After two years of non-stop touring, band founders Kevin and Anita Robinson took an entire year off (unheard of for them) to clear their heads and focus on other projects. Now Viva Voce are back with Rose City, an album they wrote, arranged, and recorded all in one furious month - choosing not to deliberate over every little thing bu...   [ read more ]

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While the Viva Voce collective has been something of a fixture on the independent artist scene for over seven years now, Lovers, Lead the Way! is, surprisingly enough, only the second full-length release from the husband and wife duo of Kevin and Anita Robinson. Perhaps as much as anything else, the band's particular sound remains hard to pin down. "Fashionably Lonely" evokes late-period Beatles with its swirling orchestral treatments and psychedelic underpinning, before taking a sharp left turn into el...   [ read more ]

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