Nightingale Floors
Vagrant
2013
Rating: 7 parking blocks out of 10
Rogue Wave came to be when I was living in SF, and those first couple of years I probably saw them live over a dozen times, booked them for shows I was helping put on, and even assisted a friend on a photoshoot who got hired by their label at the time (Sub Pop). But then the band got bigger and busier and didn't play locally as much and honestly I stopped paying attention. I just randomly saw they had released a new record this year, "Nightingale Floors," and figured why not see what they were up to?
The answer was as expected - catchy indie pop, just like on their previous albums. The second song on the record "College" might be the second best song they've ever written ("10:1" off of "Descended Like Vultures" will always be their best song of all time). The whole record is pretty damn strong. You could maybe argue that the band still sounds pretty much the same as they did when they started, but is that really a bad thing? Change doesn't always work, and Rogue Wave are damn good at this pop song thing.
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