The Roches - Moonswept
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Free Music Review: Maggie, Terre & Suzzy: A Welcome Return
Hit: 5 Stars
It's been 10 years since "Can We Go Home Now", the last time all three Roche sisters made an album together. While their various solo and duo (Suzzy & Maggie) albums have been great (espically "Zero Church"), nothing compares to hearing all three harmonize and play together. Thankfully, they still sound wonderful and have lost none of their charm or wit. "Moonswept" will please any fan of The Roches - - I just hope they don't wait another 10 years for it's follow-up! If you ever get the chance to see them live, please do. Their live shows are always extermely entertaining. Also, the last song on the album is "Jesus Shaves", not "Jesus Saves" (as Amazon has listed). Free Music Review: Smitten with Moonswept
Hit: 5 Stars
There's hope for the world as long as the Roches keep making music. The genius sisters (sort of not really gone but never, ever forgotten) offer a special album for these odd times. Artistically mature, fun and thoughtful, this album will make them many more fans and will keep the die-hard ones begging for more. More please...Don't "stop performing"...EVER. Thank you.Free Music Review: Maggie and Terre and Suzzy - together again!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Roches' first album as a trio in over a decade (baby sis Terre having gone mysteriously AWOL following 1995's Can We Go Home Now) is a triumph. Though all three sisters continued to make beautiful music in solo albums, projects with other musicians, and in particular Suzzy and Maggie's "Zero Church" and "Why the Long Face" albums, for those of us who have loved the Roches since their 1978 eponymous debut album, they all smelled like side projects. "Nice", we'd think, "but when's Terre coming back?"
Well, Terre is back; and maybe it's just that I really, really missed those shimmering three-part harmonies for all those years, but this may well be the girls' best album since the late '70s. Time has frosted Maggie's hair, but apparently left no mark on the sisters' voices. Their crystalline vocals soar above their trademark ringing guitar work (gone the electric keyboards of the '80s albums), and it's like the past three decades never happened. And there is scarcely a song here (mostly penned by Suzzy and Terre) that isn't a gem.
But while Moonswept is a very good album, it's not a perfect album. For me, the cover of the Ames Brothers' "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" (one of the first songs the sisters ever sang together, and a long-time staple of their live shows) is a throw-away. If they were going to pull one out of the vaults, I'd have preferred "The Clothesline Saga". And while Suzzy's daughter, Lucy has a lovely voice, and her song ("Long Before") is a pretty one, this isn't her album and I could have done without this number. Maggie only contributed to the writing of two of the songs here, leaving the album a bit heavy on novelty songs, from the utterly delightful "Huh" (three minutes of nervous stammering set to music), to "Naughty Lady", to NYC songwriter Paranoid Larry's "No Shoes" and "Jesus Shaves" (both of which start out fun, only to wear out their welcome just a bit by the end). Moonswept would have benefited from a "One Season" or "This Feminine Position".
But I quibble. Moonswept is an eagerly awaited return to form for long-time Roches fans. In a better world, one could hope that this album might finally earn Maggie and Terre and Suzzy some of the mass recognition they have so richly deserved for so very, very long.
Free Music Review: Fantastic!
Hit: 5 Stars
The CD just arrived today and I've already listened to it twice. I have been a fan since 1984 and this album may be my favorite yet. I'm so thrilled to have all three sisters singing together again. Free Music Review: WELCOME BACK MAGGIE TERRE AND SUZZY
Hit: 5 Stars
Well worth the wait, a quite engaging CD from the timeless trio. Such a good Cd that my favorite songs keep changing! And Lucy's LONG BEFORE would have hit potential if radio wasn't in such a sorry state! Ranks with the best of The Roches albums and a real treat for fans!