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61 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My favorite local Eastern-European bohemian dance band., November 4, 2004
Listening to local band DeVotchKa in my car is the next best thing to driving through Eastern Europe with the radio on. Listening to DeVotchKa on my iPod is the next best thing to experiencing the band performing live here in Boulder. DeVotchKa is an indie-alt-rock band that is on the verge of obtaining the wider audience it deserves. My first encounter with DeVotchKa occurred when front man, Nick Urata (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, theremin and piano), opened the show for Todd Rundgren at the Boulder Theater earlier this year with his haunting voice. I then experienced DeVotchKa again on Halloween night, when the full band (dressed as gypsies), including Jeanie Schroder (tuba, bass, bowed vibes), Tom Hagerman (violin, accordion, organ, bowed vibes), Shawn King (drums, vibraphone, trumpet, glockenspiel), and Urata electrified the Boulder Theater with its Eastern-European bohemian music (mostly from this cd). DeVotchKa's music defies mainstream dumbed-down popular music, and unless you already have the band's two previous cds (check out UNA VOLTA), it's unlikely you have anything else in your collection that sounds like this one. Stand out tracks include "You Love Me." "Enemy Guns," "How It Ends," and "Such a Lovely Thing." Highly recommended.
G. Merritt
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Original, Amazing, Uncontrolable talent., March 7, 2006
Devotchka is a band that really hit me sideways and im still reeling. I discovered the band through thier hauntingly fantastic song "How it Ends" which is featured the trailer of the movie "Everything is Illuminated." I had listened to the single for a few months and then decided to research the band, expecting to find a one hit wonder that couldnt live up to "How it ends". I couldnt have been more wrong. Song after song is brilliantly written, and sounds like nothing else you have ever heard.
And to the two star review on here. You gripe is that you like Gogol and not this band, and say its becuase this band wasnt that lively. Devotchka IS NOT a Punk band. Not only are they not a Punk Band, but they are not this Yellow Card, Simple Plan, Fallout Boy trash. This is a band that has lyrics that are written as smoothly and interestingly as classics John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and others. The music carries the wind of marachi music, with russian music that mixes in a beautiful Way.
Get this album and become hooked.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just what I needed..., October 24, 2006
I can't stop listening to my DeVotchKa CDs. Over and over. Because something new has to be devoured, not sampled, right? Anyway, I can't get over how pretty their songs are. They use so many different instruments, they're like a rock orchestra that's traveled around the globe and taken samples from music everywhere. Listening to it is like being transported. It's magical. The lyrics are poetic, sometimes so sweet you wanna cry and sometimes so sad you wanna cry. And Nick Urata's voice is one of my favorites now. It's almost operatic at times, dramatic, romantic, and like an old lover calling you home. The music is very cinematic for sure - grand and gorgeous. I'm so glad to have seen Miss Sunshine - not only because it's such a great film, but because I would never have known of DeVotchKa. And they have brightened my world. Even the sad songs are hopeful in sound if not in lyric, and I just feel uplifted after hearing them.
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