Rollover Mariner

"I really hate trying to give reviews of records or artists; well actually I really love giving my opinion. I just find it hard sometimes to avoid, the cliché analogies and descriptions like, “if so and so married so and so and if they had a love child and locked it up and only fed it blank for weeks and then gave it up for adoption to blank it would grow up to sound like blank."
My friend gave me a download of his album “I Only Have Ice For You" and he asked for my opinion. Well this is my review. I remember when Bobby started playing several years ago, I could see the spark of something really first-rate, but it wasn’t easily visible to the ordinary pack. I think he has closed that gap. I remember seeing him play with an acoustic guitar and a harmonica and a hat and a beard a sense of fear and apprehension mixed with a sly, “I know something that you don’t" undertone. And whatever took him to Kansas City to make this record, was probably a little wind of providence, which allowed him to have all the instruments needed to fill up the songs, and the time to spend baking them. I always consider myself a good cook but terrible baker, I rush through song writing, but I am always impressed with people and bands who take that extra time to show the systematic thought process of art. I think this band falls in that category, art. Give them a few listens, the album gets stronger from beginning to end, and stronger each time through. My favorites are “It’s You" and the track, “The Hour (Baptized at Sea)".
And for those who love comparisons to other bands and predictable dictated examples to get your head around here you go: “if Beck married Modest Mouse and if they had a love child and only fed it the good Wilco songs and gave it up for adoption to The Killers it would grow up and sound like Rollover Mariner." Your hip mom could listen to this, and it would sound good on or off drugs or you could be the drugs…" -Jerry Drew, Dallas, TX