Review :Rocky Votolato -True Devotion

Singer songwriter Rocky Votolato has gift- he makes the morose sound beautiful.  In True Devotion he has a clean yet emotional sound and often Ill find myself mindlessly singing tracks like  Red River - my personal favorite, it has a strong indie rock flavor all throughout the track.
 One thing anyone will notice about  Rocky Votolato is that he isn't musically boring or predictable. Maybe it comes from his background being raised in the Pacific Northwest indie scene of Seattle that he pulls his inspiration from, but if you compare Red River to another track on the album, Lucky Clover Coin, its stripped to an acoustic guitar, some violin in parts and his harmonic voice and heart felt lyrics- YEAH this is a damn good track and I like that it's first on the album because you'll want to hear it over and over again.

Rocky is currently on tour and maybe in a living room near you.  He's taking a grass root- ish  approach with this tour that is absolutely amazing- basically you go to his website and can actually request him in your very own living room to do a show in your town- if your chosen- you get 5 tickets for yourself then he sells the rest to fans in your area at $20 a head and you get a very intimate performance with a very cool dude in your own basement or wherever you can comfortably hold about 50 people. All he needs is a chair and the man is set- how awesome is that?! You dont even have to have a big house, here's a vid of said concert he recently put on in someones APARTMENT!



True Devotion is an understated  mellow album with mostly  simplistic acoustic songs proving once again that  at least as far as he is concerned less is more and we the fans are forced to reckon with the lyrics of his melodies and the messages it  softly speaks.
Track listing:
1. Lucky Clover Coin
2. Fragments
3. Red River
4. Eyes Like Static
5. Sparklers
6. Instrument
7. What Waited For Me
8. Sun Devil
9. Don’t Be Angry
10. Where We Started