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Drug Store Romeos

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    Drug Store Romeos formed at college in nearby Farnborough when childhood friends Jonny (Gilbert) and Charlie (Henderson) pinned an ad about finding a bassist for their new band to the school’s notice board – Sarah (Downie) replied and quickly proved herself a better vocalist than either of them. The trio spent the subsequent 24 hours discussing their love of Stereolab over messenger and watching Portishead and Mild High Club videos in the college’s computer lab.

    The band soon cut their teeth playing live at college, at Guildford Boiler Room and Aldershot West End Centre, rather than the familiarly trodden paths in London although they did frequent Brixton Windmill as often as three times a week at one point; carrying all of their equipment back to Fleet by train as none of the band were old enough to drive. The 3am walk home from Fleet station, with amps and flight cases slung over their shoulder, would become a rite of passage; the quiet countryside influencing their hushed atmospheric sound and nocturnal aesthetics as much as their shared affection for Suburban Lawns, Broadcast, and Tom Tom Club.

    Lyrical abstractness / concrete meaning. Danceability / lyingdownability. Minimalism / fullness. Introspective melancholy / playfulness. Lo fi / hi fi. Drug Store Romeos play with the senses and flip the expectations, finding the sweet spot every time. 


    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: It's impossible not to hear a wealth of influence when listening to Drug Store Romeos, but each hint of another band really only serves to exacerbate how unique their sound is. It's wistful and wonderfully written, but melodically interesting with time signature changes and sonic curveballs being wonderfully woven into the fabric of the pieces.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Building Song
    2. Secret Plan
    3. Bow Wow
    4. Elevator
    5. Walking Talking Marathon
    6. Frame Of Reference
    7. Feedback Loop
    8. What’s On Your Mind
    9. No Placing
    10. Vibrate
    11. Electric Silence
    12. Kites
    13. Put Me On The Finish Line
    14. Cycle Of Life
    15. Adult Glamour

    Nine Inch Nails new full-length Bad Witch completes the trilogy that began with 2016’s Not The Actual Events and 2017’s Add Violence. 

    We kick things off in spectacular style, with 'Shit Mirror' echoing the early days of NIN, all perilous ambient distortions and thumping machinated drums, while retaining the momentous drive of their later records. 'Ahead Of Ourselves' features Reznor's vox twisted out of all proportion, with a wizened percussive detritus trailing behind before snapping into a cutthroat about-turn into the trademark fuzzed-out static redux we've come to expect from them 

    'Play The Goddamned Part' on the other hand is much more reminiscent of the scattered but cohesive ambience of their greatest full-scope cinematic epic, 'The Fragile, scattered insectile stutters and electronic static underpins the oft-uncomfortable dissonance of a chorus of horns and jazzed-out abstractions.  

    Flipping over, we get a continuation of the horn-filled dissonance, but pulled along by a frenetic resonant saw-wave, lending an acidic undertone and momentous drive to proceedings before breaking down into a bleak and uncompromising closing duo of the full-spectrum gothic gloom of 'I'm Not From This World' and the twinkling syncopated shuffle of the chillingly deep 'Over And Out'.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Shit Mirror
    2. Ahead Of Ourselves
    3. Play The Goddamned Part
    4. God Break Down The Door
    5. I’m Not From This World
    6. Over And Out 

    Chrissie Hynde

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