Track Listing

1. Quiet Town
2. Summertime
3. It Looks Like Love
4. La Costa Blanca
5. Jersey Clowns
6. His Majesty Rides
7. Givin’ It Up
8. Wonderful
9. The Man Who
10. El Otro Lado

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56995 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-20
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Give it a chance
On first listening I thought this was bland stuff. However, stick with it. As always Josh Rouse continues to surprise with his constant changes in direction. Where 1972 was a euphoric celebration of the seventies, Subtitulo pays hommage to Paul Simon - and does it very well indeed.

Another side of Mr Rouse
Far more laid-back and upbeat than any previous effort, this album is (on first listen) a fair effort but nothing special. A few more listens and you begin to see the change in Josh's music is for the better. Where "Nashville" was a fanstitic, emotional, reflective journey and "Under Cold Blue Stars" gave us Josh in a fairly downbeat, lovelorn guise, "Subtitulo" shows Mr Rouse as a content man, taking it easy and seeing what comes to him. It's a more honest album than any, other than perhaps "Home" and is a real grower. Get it now!

Nice but Dull
After the career-high of Josh Rouse's magnificent fourth album '1972' and last year's slightly less gripping (but no less impressive) 'Nashville', 'Subtitulo' is something of an exercise in treading water. Sure, there's no shortage of tunes and the instrumentation is, if anything, a toned-down version of 'Nashville' but there the similarities between 'Subtitulo' and it's two predecessors end. In some cases, it actually sounds like a collection of out-takes from the aforementioned 'Nashville' with none of it's warmth, humour or melodic invention. It's a pity; Rouse is one of the best songwriters around but 'Subtitulo' is a long way short of the standard I have come to expect from him.