The jangle and thrum of twin guitars against the rumble and crash of a 4\/4 backbeat.\u00a0 Harmony vocals punching up the sing-along choruses.\u00a0 Quick, stabbing solos, expansive flourishes and crescendos, total sweaty commitment to each and every song.\u00a0 This is power pop, musical territory that\u2019s been inhabited by some legendary bands over time: Big Star, the Replacements, Gin Blossoms, Superdrag and the list goes on.<\/p>\n
Vine House is a vehicle for the songs of singer-songwriter Mark Stancato, late of Old-school drumstick taps count in the beginning of kick-off cut \u201cKiller On The Road,\u201d whose early verses have a kind of Buddy Holly feel, a stuttering rockabilly cadence that bursts into full-throated rock and roll at the choruses.\u00a0 The sweet jangle-rock melody and layered vocals of \u201cYoung Regret\u201d take you back beyond Big Star et al to the band they all grew up on, the Byrds.\u00a0 \u201cCoffee Break\u201d amps the energy higher yet with a number that feels like a less fatalistic Gin Blossoms rave-up.<\/p>\n Stancato\u2019s lyrics chronicle everyday observations interrupted by flashes of insight, mostly autobiographical tunes about gaining control over your own life and overcoming obstacles both external and self-imposed.\u00a0 Fairly introspective stuff for a band whose sound is this big and bouncy and rich, but then again, the Blossoms have made it work for 15 years.<\/p>\n Favorite moments from the remainder of this 11-track debut include the foot-tapping, air-guitaring opening of \u201cRosalie,\u201d the beautiful solo that lights up the steady-building \u201cMrs. Wallington,\u201d and the reckless, thundering melodic drive of the Clash-worthy \u201cEnd Of The Line.\u201d\u00a0 Anthemic closer \u201cShe Walked Right In\u201d falls into clich\u00e9 at the chorus, but the music still packs a tasty punch.<\/p>\n Young Regret<\/i> is an album that gains impact with each listen, but whose appeal remains essentially visceral — drums and guitars and harmonies ringing out for the greater glory of rock and roll.\u00a0 You could try to complicate that equation, or you could just let the raw impact speak for itself.\u00a0 Vine House tries to have it both ways, and mostly succeeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8225],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-40969","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-vine-house","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40969"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}