Romantica - America
ARTIST.....: Romantica
TITLE......: America
LABEL......: 2024 Records
URL........: www.romanticamusic.com
RIP DATE...: Jun-23-2007
STORE DATE.: Jun-08-2007
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 73,6 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Queen Of Hearts 03:37
02 - I Need You Tonight 04:16
03 - The National Side 04:26
04 - Drink The Night Away 04:47
05 - Ixcatan 05:37
06 - Fiona 04:44
07 - The Gulf Of Mexico 03:04
08 - La Traviada 04:22
09 - How To Live In A Modern World 03:23
10 - God Walks On The Water 05:40
11 - Quiver 03:35
12 - Mateo 08:53
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56:24 min
Release Notes:
www.myspace.com/romantica
www.2024records.com
Born and bred in war-torn Belfast, Northern Ireland, it's probably
not so surprising that (writer/frontman) Ben Kyle's sweet and airy
pop tunes retain a poignant sense of seriousness. Romantica manage
to deliver an understated heart-to-heart in an envelope of melodic
charm and sarcastic wit: too smart to be sentimental, too sweet to
be taken too seriously.
Wilco, Ryan Adams, Nick Drake, Damien Rice, Elvis Costello and The
Replacements have all been used to describe their sound, and yet
Luke Jacobs (bassist/multi-instrumentalist) calls Honey, a single
on their recently released debut album "It's Your Weakness That I
Want," an R&B track. "Those bass lines are gonna get somebody
laid," he claims.
City Pages likened Romantica to "Americana [that's] something more
than the sound of the States," and PULSE of the Twin Cities called
them "The Wallflowers for the new millennium."
Romantica's diversity is musical as well as thematic. The ten
songs on the album traverse the territory of numerous genres, from
pop to folk to alt-country to R&B to rock 'n roll, all the while
retaining a charming accessibility. This crossover appeal may be
why PULSE predicts that the band is "...destined to find a large
audience."
Jacobs and Kyle met in college and teamed up shortly thereafter
with percussionist Mark Hedlund, a veteran of the Twin Cities
Music scene. Since the release of their debut album, Romantica
have had the pleasure of the frequent membership of violinist and
"string queen" Jessy Greene (Wilco, Jayhawks, Minus 5), who
performed on the record.
As of print, Romantica have sat comfortably in the CMJ Top 200 for
over two months and have received frequent airplay on the Twin
Cities FM mega-stations KQRS and Cities 97.