{"id":30338,"date":"2025-11-20T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=30338"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:15:05","slug":"album-review-vegas-with-randolph-drops-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/album-review-vegas-with-randolph-drops-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Vegas With Randolph \u2013 Drops of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I\u2019ve written about Washington DC-based group Vegas With Randolph before; 2019\u2019s Legs & Luggage<\/i><\/a> is a great collection of songs in a Cheap Trick-meets-Fountains of Wayne mold, as are Rings Around the Sun<\/i><\/a> (2013) and 2011\u2019s Above the Blue<\/i><\/a>. Few bands working in their genre succeed at churning out album after album without covering the same ground and sounding samey. But Vegas With Randolph truly does achieve and surpass that goal; while their music is almost unrelentingly uptempo and exuberant (with just enough pathos and sass to keep things real), it also somehow finds a way to turn out original songs that are, y\u2019know<\/i>, actually original.<\/p>\n

Beyond having a sonic texture that inevitably conjures thoughts of the aforementioned powerpop heroes, Vegas With Randolph makes music that sounds like themselves. What they haven\u2019t really succeeded in doing is to break out on a national level. Sure, critics like me sing their praises, but VWR hasn\u2019t achieved a level of notability commensurate with the quality of their output.<\/p>\n

If there was ever an opportunity for that to change, it\u2019s now. Vegas With Randolph have put together a best-of collection, Drops of Gold<\/i>. One can\u2019t quite call it a greatest hits album because the group \u2013 fine as it is \u2013 hasn\u2019t really scored on the charts. But Best Of?<\/i> For sure. That\u2019s saying something, in light of the band\u2019s consistency at making solid records. But they know they\u2019ve got a good thing, and they have it in ample supply. To that end, Drops of Gold<\/i> is stuffed with top-notch tunes; the vinyl double-album features 24 of them, unceasingly catchy and powerful. And the digital version appends ten more.<\/p>\n

This album makes the case for Vegas With Randolph as a prime contender for the Great Undiscovered Powerpop Band of the 21st<\/sup> century. Pick it up and see if you agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve written about Washington DC-based group Vegas With Randolph before; 2019\u2019s Legs & Luggage is a great collection of songs in a Cheap Trick-meets-Fountains of Wayne mold, as are Rings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,39,49,55,62,65,73],"tags":[2315],"class_list":["post-30338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compilation","category-indie","category-new-release","category-powerpop","category-rawk","category-review","category-vinyl","tag-vegas-with-randolph","cat-19-id","cat-39-id","cat-49-id","cat-55-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30378,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30338\/revisions\/30378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}