Why are some harmonies so pleasing to the human ear? Actually, to the human brain. A physicist might answer that it is due to simple mathematical frequency ratios. Well, maybe simple to a mathematician, but Greek to an arithmophobe. But not ‘Greek’ to some actual Greeks, such as Plato, who were on the vanguard of trying to answer what is truly an ancient question. So, 2,500 or so years later, what is the answer? Don’t know, don’t care. But you know it when you hear it. And you are going to hear a ton of it on Rebel Joy, the debut album by americana duo Roswell Road.
The harmonies that saturate this album might lead one to believe they are so-called ‘blood’ harmonies, also known as ‘sister’ harmonies, to denote the type of perfectly matched voices…

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