1/4/2023 0 Comments Salton sea josh rouse you tube![]() ![]() Vocoder lines are thrown in on top of squawking saxaphones, synthesized “strings” make a pallid appearance. ![]() Things carry on in the same vein – songs that probably sounded fine as acoustic demos are made into carbon copies of bland eighties soul-pop. All of this, naturally, to a relentlessly bouncy synthezised tune with endless drum machine patterns. The yacht rock of ‘Ordinary People, Ordinary Lives’ has Rouse in the role of a private dick trailing a couple and photographing them – on observing a lover’s tiff, he turns to wondering what the woman is like in bed and, seemingly on a whim, decides to turn stalker: “I follow them on their way home just something that I do for fun / I’ve been watching for hours through the curtains in their room”. That ‘Salton Sea’ has a clear disco groove to it is also not that out of keeping with Josh Rouse’s back catalogue – ‘1972’ you’ll recall was downright funky in a heavy soul way reflective of the year the album snatched its title from. ![]() Everyone’s playing with their musical palette this year – to different levels of success. Strong opener ‘Salton Sea’ throws some funky uptempo synthesizer and chipping guitar into the mix – to create a sound not unlike something from the current release by The Decemberists. Everything changes, everything stays the same – so Josh Rouse is still writing songs that look at the world from a slightly oblique angle but the soundtrack has changed a little. ![]()
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