Indie and Lo-Fi music reviews

Listening to this CD is like putting on a pair of old, stone-washed blue jeans, or your favorite pair of beat-up tennis shoes like the chucks featured on the cover of this album. It's certainly nothing flashy, nothing too showy, nothing that's going to impress the suits. But that's the point, isn't it? This is just plain good music, super-comfortable, and flat out fun.

If you're looking for comfortable, indie-ish folk-rock music that will leave your toe tapping and its melody stuck in your ear all day, this is the right album for you, as well as Scott's other albums for sale here or at scottandrew.com.

I have been listening to Scotts music the first day he published a song on his web page. I find the music has a lot of energy and let's talk plain: it is music with rocks in.

Same ol' tired voice over and over. Not horrible beginnning to end, but not so good either. The band's name sums it up.

I've seen those girls live a couple of times: they rock ! This album is *just* great.

I loooooove this disc. A soulful pack of rock and roll songs that will get you movin'. The one drawback is it absolutley goes by too fast. The whole album leaves you wanting more. Bravo!!!! My faith in modern music has been restored.

Rogue Wave is another addition to the sub-pop records family, with bands like the shins, the constantines, the elected, Damien Jurado, and Postal Service, this seattle based record company has the leading edge of indie bands. Zach Rogue writes almost everything for the cd and it really shows the true sound he wanted to get from this album. "Bird on a wire" has the sound of many Elliot Smith songs, "Publish my love" is a soft resonant song that leaves you still wanting to be convinced as to what he can do while "Love's Lost Gaurantee" and "10:1" broaden the sound to create the two ranges that his music could create to be the two best songs on the album. The next song "California"
is not another beach, summer, song it's totally voices my opinion about that certain state in the first two opening words where he says "screw california". and the next best song that almost ends the cd is "you" which has awesome pausing and echoey guitar where he sings about finding love. Under the Radar magazine gave it Number 5 best cd of 2005 and it could have been higher. So this is the sound I've been waiting to hear and Rogue has definetly has delivered.

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.

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!

soundz like poor scrappy outtakes from early Superchunk, recorded thru a busted microphone loosely connected to a junky boombox. its crap dressed up in cooler-than-thou affectations.

soundz like poor scrappy outtakes from early Superchunk, recorded thru a busted microphone loosely connected to a junky boombox. it's awesome.

Welcome back, Siltbreeze. Nice slab of frenetic, lo-fi, m/f vox, get-it-on-tape energy. Little bit like Fiery Furnaces, but rougher/rawer.