Pronoia Rec. 
Viarosa : Porous (UK,2005)****
Viarosa is a six-piece acoustic singer-songwriter driven band with the help of three extra musicians, led by Richard Neuberg, while the title track is ripped to the bone, with guitar and voice. It is an in rock embedded pain-in-the-bones-unrest that is sung about on “Where the killers run”, extracting rock and folk forms in its song expressions. “Call to the Arms” is a down in the country roots fled way-out-of-here song, with violin, banjo, bass drum, guitars, with a nice tiny bit of Americana folk flavour. On “Wake” Richard, with a bit more bass in voice, he sings like an old or experienced man, worn in the outside environment, and it is about things and feelings that are able to find homes and comforts. Electric guitars with a certain melancholy, increase the emotionality in the song, show also the desires of a more young man, hoping that such things all works out in the end, in reality. “Out of the edge of Napflion” is a beautiful instrumental with sound of crickets, and later, a hen, lap steel touches and amplified guitar which almost sound, at parts, a bit like electric piano, with banjo, and tiny bits of percussion. It is recorded as if outside a barn watching the sun goes down. In general this is a very good rock driven album with a factor of emotionality searching for grounds that bring the listener to a constructive experience, much more than most average Americana album that are founded more in the style itself. Never the less, the last track, “Whiskeyworld” expresses the same world with a tough pose in a bar fantasy, sung a bit more with a male country boy rawness in the voice, a more deliberate construction. A fine enjoyable album.
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