“I wanted to explore new sounds and write with a fresh backdrop. “I really wanted something different for this album,” says Rouse.
On the ominous “Salton Sea,” Rouse’s smooth, warm vocals represent a distinctly human element awash in an ocean of manipulated tones, while the Tears For Fears-esque shuffle “Businessman” finds him capturing the loneliness of isolation in an era of constant connectivity, and the winsome title track charts the ups and downs of a relationship that can feel more digital than physical. It’s got those soaring, soft and dreamy harmonies, lush strings and guitars, and driving. Rouse confronts aging head on in this song, and does so poignantly. You have described this project as your surreal expat mid-life crisis album. It’s classic Josh Rouse a little sad, totally gorgeous, simple and not overly fanciful. The songs are cinematic and enveloping, each creating its own entrancing world out of dense synthesizer textures and shimmering electric guitar lines. Another gem on Time is the throwback Rouse tune Some Days I’m Golden All Night.
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While many of Rouse’s previous albums were recorded with a full band performing live in one room, the tracks on ‘Love In The Modern Age’ were built up a layer at a time, with Rouse playing most of the instruments himself between studios in Spain and Nashville. The resulting record, ‘Love In The Modern Age,’ is an infectious collection that still bears Rouse’s distinct fingerprints, even as it pushes his limits and forges a bold new chapter more than twenty years into his celebrated career. The Embers Of Time by Josh Rouse, released 07 April 2015 1.
Trading in his acoustic guitar for a synthesizer, he began experimenting with a new sonic palette, one inspired by everything from 80’s sophistipop and late-career Leonard Cohen to British indie rock and New York new wave. Years in deliberate exile in Valencia, Spain, fatherhood and the expected mid-life crisis led singer-songwriter Josh Rouse into gestalt. After spending the better part of a year touring behind his critically acclaimed eleventh album, ‘The Embers Of Time,’ Josh Rouse was ready for a change.
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