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It's notВ perfect (Hugs and Kisses is something of a misfire) but it certainly stands alongside the best of what Rouse has done before. well, you're a better person than me) and songs that you'll be humming along to, much to the irritation of everyone you know (Women and the Wind). Out beyond the obvious single choices, there are songs that firmly fit in the vintage Rouse camp (I'm Your Man, for instance, could have appeared on either 1972 or SubtГtulo), songs that are perfectly pitched to soundtrack daydreams (if you can hear Tropic Moon without thinking about a time you stared up at a foreign sky wanting to be nowhere but where you were. This is followed by a trio of songs that could easily function as singles: Ordinary People, Ordinary Lives, Love in the Modern Age and Businessman are all lyrically firmly in Lloyd Cole country, but the arrangements that surround them are interesting and ambitious, fusing the kind of dissonant, synth shapes that are all over Blue Nile records with a curious Muzak-ality вЂ“ as if RouseВ is aspiring to find some kind of middle ground between early electronica and easy listening.

Opener Salton Sea sets out his stall early вЂ“ there are great washes of synth, vocoder effects and dreamy guitar solos a la War on Drugs as a backdrop to a take of nighttime yearning.

For the most part it works to exhilarating effect. This is inessential, yet effortlessly pretty music.Love in the Modern Age plays down the guitar and plays up the synths and keyboards in a way that nods and winks to the likes of The Blue Nile and, to a lesser extent, Roxy Music. It's a maxim that Rouse seems only too aware of. Pop music adage number 4,283 states that if you're going to be unchallenging then at least make sure what you're making is enjoyable. Rouse isn't attempting anything new, and he's brave enough to admit it. He was born in 1972 in Nebraska, living in California, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Georgia, and Arizona during the years to follow obsessed as a teen with British cult favorites like The Smiths and The Cure, he learned to play guitar from his uncle and wrote his first song at 18. It's all done so gently though, that any Costello-esque menace in the lyrics is far too easily smothered by the duvet soft music. Roots pop singer/songwriter Josh Rouse is a melodic folk / soft rock singer.

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On tracks such as ''Domesticated Lovers'', Rouse at least seems to have a slightly barbed idea of his listenership with the lyrics 'they go to a restaurant, they don't talk, about the things that happened that day, or the new hairdo she's got'. And then of course Tallest Man on Earth and Sufjan both dropped EPs on us from out of the blue (bam available now), Josh Rouse put together a free EP of live cuts and remixes from El Turista last month, and current Fuel/Friends favorite Drew Grow and the PastorsвЂ™ Wives made a name for themselves by releasing a steady stream of 7 singles. Him, and his all-Spanish backing group have songs here that convey nothing of their homeland but at least never outstay their welcome. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. There's no radical reworking of the formula (come on, did you really expect him to go bhangra?) on this, his seventh album. Think classically crafted 70's singer songwriter such as James Taylor, except with Taylor's regular slips into cornball replaced with Rouse' immaculate sloe gins on the veranda. But while Johnson's music can feel slightly skuzzy round the edges, Rouse possesses much more of a smooth pine finish - his songs pose on the balcony rather than get sand in between their toes on the beach.

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JOSH ROUSE COUNTRY MOUSE CITY HOUSE ALBUM COVER SERIES

From his adapted home country of Spain, US-born Rouse has delivered a series of unassuming albums over the last few years that present a pool side world of slow sun tans, honey rich organs and mellifluous compositions that sound like they were created in a pristine white beach house, perhaps while Jack Johnson was out surfing for the afternoon. Listen free to Josh Rouse Country Mouse, City House (Sweetie, Italian Dry Ice and more).

Josh rouse country mouse city house album cover