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- Summary: The fourth full-length solo release from singer-songwriter Rosali features Ted Bois, David Nance, James Schroeder, and Kevin Donahue as her backing band.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mar 25, 2024Bite Down, then, is a rare record. It excels both as a richly resonant, often deeply beautiful gem. It is singer-songwriter introspection and a high octane field recording from an unusually fertile and harmonious gathering of five likeminded musicians at the seam where hip country rock meets the wide-eyed extemporisations of contemporary cosmically inclined psych-rock.
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Mar 22, 2024Even more than any music that came before it, this album highlights Rosali's unique voice, one that communicates full-hearted intensity without ever resorting to heavy-handedness or overstatement.
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UncutMar 22, 2024Every song contains a clever new idea. [Mar 2024, p.35]
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MojoMar 22, 2024The centrifugal force is Rosali's calm, deep voice, belying her lyric's nervous energy and drama, balancing vulnerability with resilience. [May 2024, p.88]
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Mar 28, 2024They’re solid songs with winning grace notes—”My Kind” opens on a 20-second orchestra-tuning cacophony before finally kicking into power chords, and “Hopeless” bursts into a furious if regrettably brief guitar solo before the final chorus. But they primarily work to show just how much better—both tighter and weirder—the rest of the album is.
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Mar 26, 2024The organically formed melodies mask some of the lyrical turbulence going on under the surface, but like any music that matters that only furthers the album’s staying power.
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Mar 27, 2024Bite Down is at its best when Rosali complicates an idea rather than simply circling it.