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Descended Like Vultures
words by Mandy Drake
Rogue Wave sound like a well-rounded band of dumpees who are healing their wounds with the therapy of melodies. Only they are not strictly a band. Zach Rogue’s brainchild of 3 years has seen one full LP release prior to ‘Descended Like Vultures’. Since his preceding long player, young Oaklander, Zach, appears to have been listening to all sorts, resulting in a complete work, bound by a wide scope of love songs. It’s a frightening realisation that ‘Bird On A Wire’ is a sugar coated Paul McCartney singing The Smiths’ melancholic, ‘Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want’, and ‘Publish My Love’ is a soaring love child of Bono and Chris Martin. But Rogue Wave do deliver. With an obvious proud record collection to inspire him, Zach Rogue, it would seem, has done what any music fan hopes to achieve. He’s taken the pros of his idols and made them his own. Just listen to ‘Catform’ and ask why Phil Collins didn’t write a song so worthy.
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