VIAROSA

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Following the success and critical acclaim of their debut album, ‘Where The Killers Run’, VIAROSA’s follow-up LP ‘Send For The Sea’ will be released by Pronoia Records (UK) and by Tarnished Records (US) on September 2nd 2008.
Led by singer-songwriter Richard Neuberg, VIAROSA have grown into a formidable act since their inception six years ago. Last year alone they shared tours and shows in the UK and in Europe with the likes of Midlake, Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3, Joan As Police Woman, Alejandro Escovedo and Josh T. Pearson. The highlight of 2007 came when, having watched this outstanding band play, REM invited VIAROSA to open for them at The Olympia Theatre in Dublin – REM’s first live outing in two years. As expected, this unique London band went down a storm.
Reviews of VIAROSA’s first releases brought comparisons to many of the greats. Their EP Porous inspired Uncut Magazine to describe the band as: “Outstanding… like The Birthday Party doing Johnny Cash.” And when the LP came, Uncut continued in its four star praise: “’Where The Killers Run’ fulfils the promise... a country-wired Echo and The Bunnymen.”
Building on their distinctive sound, the second album ‘Send For The Sea’ takes the band to even greater heights, the new songs reaching out with increased passion and urgency. ‘Send For The Sea’ has so many standout tracks, it’s hard to single them out. Tourniquet’s rolling guitars, bittersweet viola and screaming lap steel carry you across the plains, while The Last Resolve drags you up to the hilltops and howls up at the stars. With the band at full, ragged tilt – a drunken bar-room piano, a gypsy fiddle, a wild west baritone guitar – The Last Resolve sounds like a noir opera penned by David Lynch. The album’s other epic tracks include the impassioned, anti-war The Old Walls, the raging Beggars and Thieves, and the second track, Righteous Path, creeps up until you are hurled into its explosive conclusion. With its lush layers of strings and voices, Righteous Path sounds like VIAROSA’s mission statement, calling out for redemption by way of the artist’s path.
But ‘Send For The Sea’ has plenty of tender moments too. The haunting Cruel Pull Of The Stars makes you think of The Bad Seeds at their most restrained; the delicate Ode To Sunlight glitters with sweet shades of early John Martyn; and the The Sea sounds like a Jeff Buckley ballad on a morphine drip. As the sound of psychedelic seagulls moan overhead, The Sea is the perfect closing track to the intensity that has gone before.
All together, the new material creates an extraordinary and original album, a raw heart collection of great songs that are sure to bring VIAROSA the acclaim and attention they deserve.
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