Guster, "Amsterdam", Keep It Together.
Guster, "Amsterdam", Keep It Together (Palm Pictures,
Warner/Reprise)
Boston trio Adam Gardner Adam Gardner is a guitarist and vocalist for the band Guster and a member of the Tufts University Beelzebubs.
He grew up in Morristown, New Jersey and played for a band called Royal Flush while a student at The Pingry School. (guitar, vocals), Ryan Miller Ryan Miller can refer to more than one person: - Ryan Miller (cyclist), rides for Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team
- Ryan Miller (hockey player), a professional ice hockey player.
- Ryan Miller (author), a video game designer and author.
(guitar,
vocals), and Brian Rosenworcel (percussion) have been a hot ticket on
the Boston music scene for the last decade or better, having first
assembled at Tufts University in the early '90s. Indeed, in their
maturity, they still bear the hallmarks of a college band: precocious
originality liberally salted with the influences that made them form a
band in the first place, in Guster's case homages to R.E.M., The
Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, toad the wet sprocket Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American folk rock band consisting of singer Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss. Early career abound. Keep It Together
is a lovely set of mid-tempo and carefully accelerated rockers which, in
the capable hands of veteran producer Roger Moutenot (Slater-Kinney, Yo
La Tengo), glisten with clarity evident in the song crafting,
musicianship, and lyric acuity. Lyrically, the songs dwell on Her: her
comings, her leavings leav·ings
pl.n.
Scraps or remains; residue: The turkey leavings were fed to the dog.
leavings
Noun, pl
things left behind unwanted, such as food on a plate , her quirks, but like the Pernice Brothers'
Yours, Mine, Ours, there's a subtle, earnest dignity to Keep It
Together, an amiable melange mé·lange also me·lange
n.
A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a mélange of antennae and satellite dishes" Howard Kaplan. of aural recipes designed to keep your
attention.
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