RSSGuster Looking for Some Love
Aug 03
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The big question hanging over Guster is whether anyone is still listening. As a live act, the band has always been a formidably entertaining force on stage. Drummer Brian Rosenworcel alone is worth the price of admission. But their last studio release 2006′s Ganging Up on the Sun was a bit lackluster. None of the tracks really sucked, but that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement either. So today, they finally previewed new music with the release of their single Do You Love Me.
The track, being released ahead of their October 5 album Easy Wonderful, definitely hearkens back to the band’s earlier sound rather than their most recent efforts. It evokes running through a field of flowers hand in hand with your lover, as any poppy love song ought to. It even has the requisite Do do do do, do do do do bridge, which could have been yanked straight out of the seventies. Ryan Miller’s vocals are front and center on this one, but not in a bothersome way. The instrumentation, something that has always been uniquely Guster, seems to have taken a backseat, but again not in a bothersome way.
Fans will embrace this song as a glimpse of good things to come. Do You Love Me amicably questions whether anyone would welcome a little more Guster in their lives, but I think it’s pretty clear from this single that the answer is yes.
