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- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Nettwerk Records
The Nebraska-born indie folkie continues his transmissions from the Iberian Peninsula.
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A DIY singer-songwriter with sharper chops than the usual indie folkie, Josh Rouse hit a critic-approved home run in 2003 with 1972, a concept album that captured the mellow sounds of his birth year. The Nebraska-born, Tennessee-based nomad then moved to Spain, a particularly unlikely home for a guy who reimagines ‘70s smoothies darkened by teenage obsessions like the Cure and the Smiths. Nevertheless, Rouse here manages to maintain his vintage faux-Brit vibes in the absence of longtime producer and fellow Anglophile Brad Jones: Check the ghost of George Harrison’s gently weeping guitar on “God, Please Let Me Go Back.”
What distinguishes Rouse from similar backward-glancing roots-diggers is his pop smarts, particularly as Country Mouse's first half gets sweetened by steel guitar, banjo, real woodwinds and horns, various keys and thinly layered guitars. Despite homey tracks like “Domesticated Lovers,” one of three co-written with Rouse’s Spanish girlfriend Paz Suay, the carefree lightness of “Hollywood Bass Player” — an uncharacteristically riff-y ode to a failed hipster who can’t settle down until he finds his sunshine groove — seems to capture Rouse at his most real.
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Sweetie |
4:52 |
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| 02. | |
Italian Dry Ice |
4:43 |
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| 03. | |
Hollywood Bass Player |
4:07 |
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| 04. | |
God, Please Let Me Go Back |
4:21 |
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| 05. | |
Nice To Fit In |
3:30 |
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| 06. | |
Pilgrim |
4:24 |
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| 07. | |
Domesticated Lovers |
3:30 |
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| 08. | |
London Bridges |
4:06 |
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| 09. | |
Snowy |
5:13 |
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09 Total Tracks, 38:46 Total Length
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