a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/La%20Rocca%20Sing%20Song%20Sung.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/320/La%20Rocca%20Sing%20Song%20Sung.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-style: italic;”Sing Song Sung/span gives a brief glimpse of what is expected for the band’s debut release later this year, span style=”font-style: italic;”The Truth/span. Recorded under the guidance of Tony Hoffer (Beck, Belle Sebastian) in LA, La Rocca take a brash step into blue collar indie with this 4 song EP. The title track’s coarse harmony flows smoothly through English born Bjorn Baillie’s voice, a gorgeous pattern that appears throughout the remaining tracks. For the recording, the Irish band ventured across the Atlantic in hopes of finding a wider audience. Success, it seems, is attracted to the band as recent appearances at SXSW and a feature on FOX’s The OC have seemingly proven that La Rocca’s sound has found its audience.br /br /For the life of me, it seemed as though I couldn’t read anything written about the band that shied away from U2 comparisons. What a basic thought, that bands from the same country don’t necessarily sound the same; why then, I thought, must all Irish bands be compared to U2? Painfully, after multiple listens the similarities started to appear. While there is a raw power that U2 never captured, La Rocca liberally apply the band’s popular early ’80s sound throughout span style=”font-style: italic;”Sing Song Sung/span. Thankfully, however, The Edge is no where to be found.br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/3%20stars.3.jpg”img style=”cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/3%20stars.3.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //abr /br /a href=”http://dangerbirdrecords.com/la_rocca/mp3/sing_song_sung.mp3″La Rocca “Sing Song Sung”/a span style=”font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”(mp3)/spanbr /br /a href=”http://larocca.ie/”La Rocca – Official Site/abr /a href=”http://myspace.com/laroccamusic”La Rocca – MySpace Site/a span style=”font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”(3 songs)br /br //spana onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/La%20Rocca.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/320/La%20Rocca.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //a