Viva Voce will be releasing their third full length, Get Yr Blood Sucked Out, September 12th on Barsuk Records in the US, and August 14th on Full Time Hobby Records in Europe.

Kevin and Anita Robinson formed Viva Voce (pronounced VEE-vah-VOH-chay - Italian for “by word of mouth”) in their native Muscle Shoals, AL, in 1998. Heeding the call of the woods, they relocated to Portland, OR, in 2001.

Get Yr Blood Sucked Out is their third LP, and is a markedly dark and sultry record, epic in scope and anything but simple in formulation. Anita’s rock-god(dess) guitar excursions (she says she hopes this record makes people enjoy guitars again) and Kevin’s thunderous drumming combine in an intense, empowering album. Perhaps their most violently guitar driven album to date, Get Yr Blood Sucked Out sums up the struggle to keep things innocent and pure in a world full of vampires waiting to suck the life out of you.

Unlike the consciously minimal approach of some of Viva Voce’s two-piece contemporaries, the band’s ambition both live and on record is to achieve multi-layered musical feats of amazement: an underlying deftness of arrangement and composition supports the band’s mélange of fuzzed-out psych, infectious melody, and hand-clap breakdowns (often all in the same song). When Kevin and Anita get an idea for a song, they hear all the parts at once; the challenge is then to get all the sounds in their heads onto tape.

Viva Voce both continually challenges and stimulates the listener while holding them blissfully entranced. We suggest you recline in the comfy chair of your choice and dim the lights. Then, enjoy.