Vinyl Arch Rodeo - Herodotus

 

During my recent illness, I was persuaded to join Submit Hub and was a little reluctant, but one of the results is this. The place is mainly aimed at single songs and there is a lot of submissions that are a million miles away from what IDHAS does, but there is probably enough for a weekly playlist or something like Subjangle's Beat The Delete. We'll see,

The songs sent are only as good or mediocre as I receive in the daily email explosion, but what I hoped for was to find a few new bands that I hadn't heard of before and there's been a couple already. The first is Vinyl Arch Rodeo, a solo project from Israeli musician, Guy Sear.

Herodotus is very reminiscent of Brit Pop and nails it pretty well. A song like Everyone, in particular, has all the chops that make you want to singalong. To The Top is another fine affair with a bigger arrangement and a big Guitar solo. 

However when Sear moves away from the big anthems, the album gets even more interesting. His vocal is more than a little Al Stewart at times, particularly on And Nothing Else and this could open up Folk Rock. This is a really interesting album, but promises much more in the future.

You can listen to the album here.You can find out more about Vinyl Arch Rodeo here.

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