Root Supposed He Was Out of the Question
Root
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I Wish I Was Tex Perkins | Root | 4:10 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Spring Me Out of Caroline Springs, Caroline | Root | 3:47 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Shazza and Michelle | Root | 4:38 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Young Man's Blues Blues | Root | 3:27 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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I Still All Australia "Ho!" | Root | 3:04 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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My Cowboy Hat Is Bigger Than Texas | Root | 3:28 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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The Ballad of the Poowong Magpies | Root | 2:44 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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School Mum | Root | 3:40 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Pauline Hanson Says There's Chrsitian Muslims Too | Root | 4:26 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Back to Mine | Root | 6:48 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Root 66 | Root | 3:37 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Songs |
Customer Reviews
A fantastic debut album.
This album is a great introduction to this new(ish) band. Clever and incisive lyrics, good musicians and excellent production combine to make this a worthy download. Each cut on the album has its merits, there's no filler. My personal highlights are Young Man's Blues Blues, I Still Call Australia "Ho!" and the awesome Back to Mine. If there was one criticism, it would be that it doesn't quite capture the live experience of the band. Definitely download the album, but nothing beats seeing them live. Do it!
Root!…or branch?
Despite this is the début offering of the band, there is some serious provenance and ability in this Melbourne quartet (quintet or sextet live): there are three prodigiously talented musicians teamed up with the co-lead vocalist and sample programmer late of TISM—allegedly! Consider that one only has to listen to the lyrical musings on offer: suburbia, the vagaries of "15 minutes of fame", youth being misspent by the young, post-modernist ruminations, cultural cringe, extistential dilemmas. All familiar themes covered by that other certain aforementioned band! Well, who gives if ROOT! aren't related? Or indeed are? I'm just grateful that there still exists a group that have some chops behind them (heck, they make country cool), have amazing presence onstage and sing songs that incorporate that uniquely laconic Australian humour with a cocked contemporary eye and searing intellect. It sure works a treat here, even if DC Root will deny his previous balaclava-clad existence! What a courageous move…five stars! (N.B. If anyone knows where that reference to five stars for a courageous move came from, I know that they are definitely a TISM fanatic!)
the thinking man's thinking band
This is the debut album from Melbourners ROOT! ("garage punk poets" as they have been called) and it is a fine piece of work. I listen to this almost every day, because who can get sick of such hooks and sarcasm and cynical poetry and rock riffage??? Highly, highly, recommended.
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