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||| Artist Name_____> Rooney |||
||| Album Name______> Rooney |||
||| Label___________> Geffen |||
||| Genre___________> Rock |||
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||| Release Date____> 2016-10-21 |||
||| Street Date_____> 2003-05-27 |||
||| Size____________> 304.33mb ||
|| Playtime________> 39:04 ||
|| Encoder_________> FLAC 1.3.1 ||
|| Quality_________> 1038kbps / 44.1khz / 2 channels ||
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| 1 Blueside 3:18 |
| 2 Stay Away 3:32 |
| 3 If It Were Up to Me 3:00 |
| 4 I'm A Terrible Person 2:46 |
| 5 Popstars 4:07 |
| 6 I'm Shakin' 3:34 |
| 7 Daisy Duke 3:47 |
| 8 Sorry Sorry 3:07 |
| 9 That Girl Has Love 3:31 |
| 10 Simply Because 4:03 |
| 11 Losing All Control 4:19 |
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| Much like fellow L.A. indie boy band Phantom Planet, Rooney is a |
| young quintet who has the right mix of looks, chops, and properly |
| fashionable influences to make waves in a pop music world where |
| retro is once again chic. The similarity doesn't stop there. |
| Rooney ringleader Robert Carmine's real last name is |
| "Schwartzman," which makes his brother, PP, drummer Jason |
| Schwartzman. But famous family mumbo jumbo aside, Carmine and his |
| band are poised with this, their self-titled debut, to prove to |
| both audiences and the music industry that E.L.O. and the |
| Psychedelic Furs aren't just names to drop in interviews, but |
| valid musical reference points that give their giddy, |
| harmony-laden pop its freshly scrubbed sound. |
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| Fortunately for Rooney, Carmine and mates Taylor Locke, Ned |
| Brower, Matthew Winter, and Louis Stephens have that shaggy, "aw, |
| this old thing?" fashion sense that has contributed to the success |
| of stylized throwbacks such as Pete Yorn and the Strokes. |
| Fortunately for the listener, the combo backs up its pedigree and |
| grooming with some solid pop songs. "Terrible Person" is a Pretty |
| in Pink-era update with its organ rolls and bopping beat, while |
| the unabashed romanticism of "Blueside" and "Stay Away" is |
| refreshingly un-ironic. The majority of the album is upbeat, |
| sounding at times like a late-1970s version of Hot Hot Heat. This |
| means that Rooney has the ability to channel the brashness of |
| early punk rock while still sounding like a band that came out |
| before that genre truly arrived. The healthy piano-tie vibe that |
| bursts out of tracks like "Sorry Sorry" is emboldened with a |
| shoutable chorus, sure. But while many punk revival acts cut their |
| 1960s, '70s (and '80s) pop influences off at the knees, or pare |
| them down to the quick, Rooney leaves them un-trimmed. |
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| Can busy, na∩vely romantic verse make an album plod along and |
| become a bit of a nuisance? Yes, and this is where Rooney starts |
| to fail, since the majority of their debut's 11 songs are |
| dominated by Carmine's wordy verses. However, the band largely |
| avoids this pratfall by working with producers Keith Forsey |
| (Simple Minds, Psychedelic Furs -- hey, wait...), Brian Reeves |
| (Pet Shop Boys? Really?), and Geffen/Interscope kingpin Jimmy |
| Iovine (Alright, now you're just being ridiculous). These older, |
| wiser heavyweights have livened up the combo's songs with layer |
| upon fuzzy layer of vintage-sounding guitars. Of course, it's |
| unclear whether they're actually vintage, but if a software |
| program or microchip'd pedal can flawlessly reproduce the sound of |
| a Vox AC30, isn't there some sort of "digital tribute to analog |
| pop" argument that can be made? If there is, it won't be made |
| here. It will be said that Rooney's debut is a solid pop record, |
| digitized vintage feel or not. It gleefully pulls from the 1970s |
| AOR catalog while donning a skinny piano tie, and makes reference |
| to the vaunted influences of punk and garage only in the band's |
| youthful energy. |
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