Viva Voce - The Heat Can Melt Your Brain - Album Review

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Viva Voce - The Heat Can Melt Your Brain - Album Review

Viva Voce
The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
Full Time Hobby
Release Date: 20 June 2005 Why bother going to an expensive restaurant when you can have delicious home-made food? This seems to be the credo of Viva Voce, an Oregon-based band whose line up consists of a husband and a wife, and whose sound is so dreamy and delicate you can literally use it as a lullaby when you can’t sleep. The magic couple returns with their

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