I approach the music from the perspective of the work to date of Dallas Green, because I musically virtually not know Pink and they can only see as a nice promotional accessories in this work without my so pejorative.
You & Me is definitely more Dallas Green as Alecia Moore, who here a colorful Pop Rock Album in Pink is style hotel definitely disappointed.
City & Colour was bloated from album to album.
The arrangements were more complex and the time when a man has occurred only with his guitar, harmonica and voice, seemed over. One might call it a development, or as a sell-out; I squint also towards the Black Keys, who performed in my eyes a similar shift to a pop with a for me rather bitter aftertaste.
With Rose Ave Mr. Green seems the beginning of his solo career and to remember is limited finally back to the basics: soft sounds and quiet melodies arouse great emotions. Alecia Moore supports the Green usual soulful ballad presented with its distinctive tube and so created a wonderful duets which let the odd shiver down your spine.
Greens angelic, crystal clear, part falsetto-like singing and the voluminous, smoky powerful voice of Moore are clearly in the foreground and complement each other very harmoniously despite their opposition.
Time they sing in harmony together, sometimes they languish alternately at each other and here I have to do works, which seem to me simply more honest and authentic, and thus do not run as Rose Ave places risk drifting into shallow swabs compared to the early City & Colour.
Rose Ave is a relaxed work whereupon both musicians either Bock have had to perhaps escape the hustle and bustle of the whole patch Pop Music Business times for some time and to reflect back on the music, or even just to carry this to the first glance unexpected collaboration open up new groups of buyers.
Here Dallas Green benefited certainly from the awareness of the pop icon Pink.
Nevertheless, Rose Ave is the bottom line has become a delicate, folky album with excursions to slidende Country fields, which fits perfectly with the atmosphere of this autumnal day and the year-end period partly melancholic mood.
