It will repeat the experience in 2004 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the magazine. Directs and arranges the concert The Rockdelux Experience to celebrate the 200 issues of Rockdelux magazine. A new adventure, the Élena group, aimed at a more experimental pop, is materialized in Porelamordedios (2001) and Present (2003). He later joined two groups: Romodance, who publish Little Symphonies for the Kids (1998) and Zorras (1999), and Sitcom, with a self-titled album in 1999.
He shifted gears once again for 2018's Love in the Modern Age, whose synthesizers and light techno-pop beats bore out his longstanding love for New Order, Prefab Sprout, The Blue Nile and their '80s Brit-pop ilk.1996 enters the group of melodic hardcore of Barcelona Corn Flakes, with whom records Ménage (1997). Rouse's 2015 album The Embers of Time marked a shift away from his now-characteristic sunniness: Inspired by his experiences with Gestalt therapy, its lyrics all dealt with a midlife crisis, though the mood was usually more reassuring than despairing. Valencia, Spain would continue to be his recording base, and in 2014 he won a Spanish Goya Award for the song "Do You Really Want to Be in Love?" (from the film "La Gran Familia Española" (2013)). He and Suay collaborated on a number of songs and even recorded an EP together, She's Spanish, I'm American. He met his second wife, Spanish visual artist Paz Suay, around this time, and she influenced both his life and music: His 2010 album El Turista included Spanish-language lyrics and Spanish/Brazilian musical influences.
He'd continue to embrace the soft-rock direction on his later Nashville albums, Nashville and Subtitulo, both of which alluded lyrically to the end of his first marriage. It became a cult hit and Rouse playfully referenced his new musical direction in the title of a followup live album, The Smooth Sounds of Josh Rouse.
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These emerged strongest on the 2003 album 1972, named for his birth year and steeped in the influence of Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac and Marvin Gaye. By now Rouse was regularly touring with some of the brighter indie-pop songwriters, including Marshall Crenshaw and Mark Eitzel, and his music gradually opened to pop influences.
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The sophomore album Home continued the dreamy vibe, appropriately placing a song ("Directions") in Cameron Crowe's fantasy movie "Vanilla Sky" (2001). Onstage Rouse projected the image of a traveling troubadour, often sporting scruffy facial hair and a porkpie hat. Informed by the dreamier end of indie rock (he'd begun working with members of the Nashville indie band Lambchop) the album favored slow tempos and meditations on the darker side of romance. He began pitching songs and playing acoustic showcases, releasing his debut, Dressed Up Like Nebraska, on the Rykodisc-associated Slow River label in 1998. Born in Oshkosh, Nebraska, he came to Clarksdale, TN for college but wound up dropping out and settling in Nashville, where he parked cars at the Renaissance Hotel. Songwriter Josh Rouse was a key figure in the '90s Americana movement but soon expanded his sound to a more diverse palette.