Nashville
Rykodisc
2005
Rating: 7 loaves of bread out of 10
Josh Rouse is soft rock for the current generation, chamber pop at its finest. Does it make me old that I really like this? Gah, who cares, good music is good music. It probably won’t be donning anyone’s skate parts anytime soon, put it’s a great disc to throw on at the end of a long day to unwind to. Josh Rouse has always been a fantastic songwriter, and it seems that with each release these talents are magnified more and more. I would be hard pressed to compare this to anyone in particular, as it sounds like no one and everyone at the same time; you could boil the songs down into particulars – this track sounds like Bread, this one The Smiths, there’s a bit of Lambchop on this song…but the overall picture is that of a confident songcrafter forging his own way. More than anything this album is a grower, it seeps into your brain slowly and then a few weeks later you find yourself listening to it all the time…that’s my favorite kind of album.
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