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Rhetoric / Rocky is the dream-pop quintet's first release since 2021. A-side "Rhetoric" finds the band at full throttle. A lead guitar line jangles away with a mind of its own, then distorts and revs up during the chorus, which captures the rush of accelerating from a ramp onto a clear highway. Vocalist Hal McDonough … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Care Package – Rhetoric
The alt-country act's latest album is The Big Country. Like fellow Pittsburgh tumbleweeds Westinghouse Atom Smasher, Horace Whisper & the Empty Hand searches for the wide open spaces of traditional Americana music and finds them cluttered with high-rises, celebrity gimmicks, billboards, and screens. The cowpokes of old reveled in the freedom of the plain; Horace … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Horace Whisper & the Empty Hand – Big Country
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