On each of his albums, Josh explores a specific theme or sound that allows him to apply his songcraft in ways that keep his music fresh and challenging.
In the nearly 20 years since, he has developed a reputation as one of the leading American singer/songwriters of his generation. This is inessential, yet effortlessly pretty music. Josh Rouse released his first album, Dressed Up like Nebraska, in 1998. It's a maxim that Rouse seems only too aware of. Country Mouse, City House by Josh Rouse, released 31 July 2007 1. Pop music adage number 4,283 states that if you're going to be unchallenging then at least make sure what you're making is enjoyable. Rouse isn't attempting anything new, and he's brave enough to admit it.
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Rouses eighth studio album, El Turista, was released in 2010, a full five years after his relocation to Spain. But while Johnson’s music can feel slightly skuzzy round the edges, Rouse possesses much more of a smooth pine finish - his. artist Paz Suay), Rouse chose to handle his own production for 2007s Country Mouse City House and relocated to Valencias Mediterranean coast. It's all done so gently though, that any Costello-esque menace in the lyrics is far too easily smothered by the duvet soft music. Josh Rouse Country Mouse City House Review. On tracks such as ''Domesticated Lovers'', Rouse at least seems to have a slightly barbed idea of his listenership with the lyrics 'they go to a restaurant, they don't talk, about the things that happened that day, or the new hairdo she's got'.
Him, and his all-Spanish backing group have songs here that convey nothing of their homeland but at least never outstay their welcome. There's no radical reworking of the formula (come on, did you really expect him to go bhangra?) on this, his seventh album. Think classically crafted 70's singer songwriter such as James Taylor, except with Taylor's regular slips into cornball replaced with Rouse' immaculate sloe gins on the veranda. But while Johnson's music can feel slightly skuzzy round the edges, Rouse possesses much more of a smooth pine finish - his songs pose on the balcony rather than get sand in between their toes on the beach.
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From his adapted home country of Spain, US-born Rouse has delivered a series of unassuming albums over the last few years that present a pool side world of slow sun tans, honey rich organs and mellifluous compositions that sound like they were created in a pristine white beach house, perhaps while Jack Johnson was out surfing for the afternoon.