Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
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Artist: Rogue WaveEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-25
Music Label: Sub Pop
Soundtracks:
- Bird On A Wire
- Publish My Love
- Salesman At The Day Of The Parade
- Catform
- Love's Lost Guarantee
- 10:1
- California
- Are You On My Side
- Medicine Ball
- You
- Temporary
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Hit: 5 Stars
This album fits in quite well with its Sub Pop counterparts. It's sure to please fans of "Oh, Inverted World" and "Chutes Too Narrow", but don't get too caught up in the Shins comparison. "Descended Like Vultures" stands on its own two feet with a resumé stuffed with enough indie pop grandness, but also just enough variation to make it interesting.
Dabbing in both slow jams and high-powered electric pop tracks, Rogue Wave also takes the time to flavor the songs with intelligent, thought-provoking (and equally catchy) lyrics. Listeners will find the acoustic tracks well placed and paid their due attention. Did I just hear a hint of Bob Dylan in "Medicine Ball"?
I really find it difficult to say anything bad about this album. I was blown away and I've been having a hard time keeping this out of my CD player for the last two weeks. Highly recommended!
No two songs sound too alike. The vocalist noodles his way around every other instrument almost too well ... Preferred tracks: "Bird On A Wire", "Publish My Love", "Love's Lost Guarantee", "Are You On My Side" (can't I just say them all?)
Go ahead and get it. Give it two straight listens - you really shouldn't be disappointed.
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Descend Like Vultures is a fabulous collection of delirious, dizzy alt-pop. At times it reaches the highest acclaim any pleasantly detuned indie-rock can achieve: comparisons to New Zealand indie-rockers from the 1980s. Of course, those bands are fairly obscure these days and this Bay Area bunch may never have heard the Great Unwashed or Tall Dwarfs before. Regardless, they all share an equal love for pure, unbridled pop music and introspective experimentation. Rogue Wave's strummy debut was weighted closer to the pop side, while the new album leans more toward noise in content and pop in context (in the clean sheen of big studio production). In particular, "10:1" marks a new direction, towards a deep immersion in heaviosity. Let's hope the inclusion of "Every Moment" on the Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack has raised the band's profile to where folks aside from kids who post to indie bulletin boards obsessively will hear this album. Vultures is darker, stranger and better than its predecessor. ?Mike McGonigalAlternative Rock Music CDs
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