| View Larger Image | Descended Like Vultures | Audio CDby Rogue Wave
| List Price: | $13.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Sub Pop | | Release Date: | October 25, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 36,641th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Bird on a Wire
- Track 2: Publish My Love
- Track 3: Salesman at the Day of the Parade
- Track 4: Catform
- Track 5: Love's Lost Guarantee
- Track 6: 10:1
- Track 7: California
- Track 8: Are You on My Side
- Track 9: Medicine Ball
- Track 10: You
- Track 11: Temporary
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
This is where Rogue Wave, the band, really gets started. As Oakland-based singer/songwriter/arranger Zach Rogue puts it, "this record is the sound of four people's ideas colliding." Descended Like Vultures, Rogue Wave's second full-length for Sub Pop, is a velvety, darkly dichotomous album: pop vs. despair; hope vs. realism. Whereas Rogue's `04 release, Out of the Shadow, was for all intents and purposes a solo project, Descended Like Vultures finds Zach Rogue's unapologetic hooks and soaring melodies built up skyscraper-high by bandmates and mulit-instrumentalists Pat Spurgeon, Gram LeBron and Evan Farrell, who have grown close and road-seasoned thanks to a year of intensive international touring with The Shins, The Helio Sequence, TV on the Radio, and Mates of State. While the new album isn't an overtly political record, (rather, it's more humanitarian) Zach Rogue's impeccable songwriting was heavily informed by what he and his band experienced on the road. On this release, Rogue Wave leaves no stone unturned, no possibility unexplored. |
Amazon.com
Descend Like Vultures is a fabulous collection of delirious, dizzy alt-pop. At times it reaches the highest acclaim any pleasantly detuned indie-rock can achieve: comparisons to New Zealand indie-rockers from the 1980s. Of course, those bands are fairly obscure these days and this Bay Area bunch may never have heard the Great Unwashed or Tall Dwarfs before. Regardless, they all share an equal love for pure, unbridled pop music and introspective experimentation. Rogue Wave's strummy debut was weighted closer to the pop side, while the new album leans more toward noise in content and pop in context (in the clean sheen of big studio production). In particular, "10:1" marks a new direction, towards a deep immersion in heaviosity. Let's hope the inclusion of "Every Moment" on the Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack has raised the band's profile to where folks aside from kids who post to indie bulletin boards obsessively will hear this album. Vultures is darker, stranger and better than its predecessor. –Mike McGonigal |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 16 reviews)
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Phenomenal album by Jamie L. Wright (Olathe, KS)  5 Stars
October 03, 2008
Love, love, love this album. It flows so nicely...everything is so melodic, yet you can rock out to it at the same time. This album is perfectly composed. It's hard to take it out of the CD player!
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I love this CD by M. J. Lomenzo (Hoboken, NJ USA) 5 Stars
January 20, 2007
I stumbled upon "Love's Lost Guarantee" while listening to Pandora and loved that song. I bought this CD and love almost every song. Its California pop music plain and simple. Some great harmonies and nice guitar work. I like "Publish My Love", "Are you on My Side", "Catform" and "You"
The new single "Eyes" is wonderful also, you should definitely download that one off iTunes or buy the CD single.
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wow by Frank Saponare (Detroit, MI) 5 Stars
December 21, 2006
This is a flawless pop record on a Pet Sounds scale. I'm just sad this wasn't a part of my collection sooner. Amazing.
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Just Getting Better by E. Spencer 5 Stars
May 24, 2006
I absolutely adored this CD, mostly because the music is so different and the band seems to have such a creative force in music-making. If I was forced to pick a genre for this release I would say 60s psychedilic influenced new-new wave. Standouts include "Publish My Love" and "California" but any song would honestly give you chills.
Also, if you enjoy this band, be sure to check out thier first CD, "Out of the Shadow" for more of a experimental 60s influenced sound.
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Amazing! by J. Ladenheim (Pennsylvania) 5 Stars
May 15, 2006
This album is absolutely amazing! I got turned onto Rogue Wave by hearing them on XM radio, and I was instantly hooked. They are totally underplayed. Every song on this album is amazing!
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