Track Listing

1. Light Up
2. Save Me
3. Lamplight
4. Ocean
5. Saints
6. All Over Your Body
7. Wisteria
8. West
9. Stop
10. This Night

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130460 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-10
• Number of discs: 1

Review
The masters understand that the key to a great pop song lies in the ability to mine that place in the hippocampus where beloved melodies and the bittersweet moments they memorialize commingle. In this regard, The Alice Rose's Phonographic Memory is one of the most apt titles for a pop album in ages. Think about hearing a classic tune by Squeeze for the first time, and it's easy to understand how special this Austin-based band is: Every song on its debut sounds both strangely familiar and utterly new. An especially noteworthy example, "West," opens like a modern emo-rocker, but then it dissolves into a simple piano-driven ballad, as if it were a demo tape from Brian Wilson's late-'60s period. With sweetly sincere lyrics -- "Over-hanging memory wilts / The heartbeat began / Tipped gladly in hand over everything I have" -- the song simply blooms, sounding oddly warm and instantly memorable in the process. -David Brown --National Public Radio

Review
Delicious melodic guitar pop out of Austin, Texas. Led by a talented singer-songwriter by the name of JoDee Purkeypile, the Central Texan quintet eschews any overt stylistic alliance (outside of an obvious fondness for 80s British pop) and simply fills up a cookie sheet s worth of wonderful songs on Phonographic Memory. Save Me, Light Up and Saints fulfill the daily requirement for near-perfect pop, while All Over Your Body and This Night stretch out with hip-wiggling rhythms and textural feedback. Good songwriting, good performances, strong production nothing but good stuff here. -Michael Toland --High Bias

Review
For music fanatics, there are few greater joys than having a band seemingly burst out of nowhere armed with an album's worth of captivating new music, brimming with enthusiasm and vitality, giving the scene a huge jolt of excitement. The Alice Rose, a quintet out of Austin, TX, is just such a band capturing lightning in a bottle, channeling influences like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Big Star into a tasty new set of melodic rockers that are catchy without sounding derivative... - Neal Alpert --Amplifier Magazine