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13 tracks | 49 minutes
Released Apr 2005
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:25 Intro lyrics BUY MP3 00:25 Intro lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:25 Intro
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:55 Pretty Fairies On The Daisies lyrics BUY MP3 04:55 Pretty Fairies On The Daisies lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:55 Pretty Fairies On The Daisies
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:44 What It Means To Be lyrics FREE 03:44 What It Means To Be lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:44 What It Means To Be
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:20 If Blood Was Wine lyrics BUY MP3 04:20 If Blood Was Wine lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:20 If Blood Was Wine
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:10 Act Like Nothing's Wrong lyrics BUY MP3 05:10 Act Like Nothing's Wrong lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:10 Act Like Nothing's Wrong
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:16 Interlude lyrics BUY MP3 00:16 Interlude lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:16 Interlude
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:33 Dig Deeper lyrics BUY MP3 04:33 Dig Deeper lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:33 Dig Deeper
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:35 Iron Man lyrics BUY MP3 03:35 Iron Man lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:35 Iron Man
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:29 No One Knows lyrics BUY MP3 02:29 No One Knows lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:29 No One Knows
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:19 Nuthin Means Nuthin lyrics BUY MP3 04:19 Nuthin Means Nuthin lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:19 Nuthin Means Nuthin
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:07 Japanese Schoolgirl Mapping Device lyrics BUY MP3 05:07 Japanese Schoolgirl Mapping Device lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:07 Japanese Schoolgirl Mapping Device
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:52 Imperfect lyrics BUY MP3 05:52 Imperfect lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:52 Imperfect
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:17 Falling Into Quicksand lyrics BUY MP3 04:17 Falling Into Quicksand lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:17 Falling Into Quicksand
Eclectic, funky, rhythmic, melodic surrealist rock for thinking humans.
Bio / Background
Pretty Fairies on the Daisies are Falling into Quicksand, and all we can do is enjoy it.
As always, the best way to talk about Zru Vogue is to shut up and listen. Here are two men who transcend the endless poppy fields of cliché rock/alt/pop and emerge with a quirky beauty all their own. Zru Vogue has always been like that - just more so now. As a group, they've been knocked around some, have had their battles and their successes. And they are the better for it, like a wine reaching its prime.
Andrew Jackson and Rick Cuevas are back together and it's almost as though they never parted - except that each seems to have brought a new energy and wisdom to their combined effort. Intelligent observation makes for great art, and when two musicians like these can pool their hurts and joys, it is an awesome, even healing thing.
Their previous release, Beautiful Again, sent them headlong into this next album, like something shot out of a cannon.
↓ more ↓And if Beautiful Again was a rebirth, then Survival of the Cutest is the mature and fully formed Zru. Some of the original playful Zruishness has been recaptured in Survival of the Cutest, and fans will be happy to hear the trademark "ethnothrob" sound once again in the rhythms of these tracks.
I'm listening to Survival of the Cutest as I write - and I am having some trouble staying in this chair. That's another trait of Zru Vogue. Listening and moving - that's how to enjoy it.
The songs, written by Andrew Jackson, flow confidently from the jilted "Pretty Fairies on the Daisies" to the wary "What It Means To Be" to the wistful "ifs" in "If Blood Was Wine." The angry anthems "Act Like Nothing's Wrong" and "Dig Deeper" give way to the tragic, funny double-entendres of "Iron Man." Growling and funky, wonderfully repressed "No One Knows," leads to the absolute something of "Nuthin Means Nuthin." Then, of course, there's the unbridled - if somewhat creepy - cuteness of "Japanese Schoolgirl Mapping Device." "Imperfect" should be an official hymn for the human race.
Is it strange that the final song, "Falling into Quicksand," the farewell track which is about falling, fading, fraying, floating away - also seems to me like a great make-out song? Zru Vogue does that: they suggest that even life's dark twists can be full of brilliant excursions.
Zru Vogue's Survival of the Cutest is an honest gemstone in the current sea of polymer pop mediocrity. Die-hard fans will rejoice at this new release, and new comers will get a chance to experience one of Zru Vogue's finest.
- Review by r.c. barajas
↑ less ↑Average Customer Review: 3
Intrasting songsmuramasa wrote on August 04, 2009
The songs ar not bad butt it's somthing more fore my sister then me.









