After a successful self-titled debut LP (2018) and equally good successor All Those Freaks (2019), The Roves are back with their third full-length: Needle Factory. What stands out: the UK indie collective, consisting of James Wing (vocals, acoustic guitar), Rhys Kempley (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Tom Wing (vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion), Luke Evans (bass) and Oli Booker (drums, percussion), play with the eagerness of young dogs but with the quality of experienced hands. You’ll hear eleven new original guitar songs, spaced in a Venn diagram where jangle pop, indie rock and Beatlesque psych overlap. For the lyrics they found inspiration in their neighborhood – “Well I roam around, and I roam uptown // Looking for any place // Where trouble can be found” (from lead single I Am The Flood) – encountering noteworthy figures such as Alberto Zi & The Uptown Three, Big Jimmy, Wally Pine, Mr White and Joanna & Miguel, to name a few. But even if you can’t follow that either, this again is a very enjoyable record.
Needle Factory is out now digitally and on CD through Discotif Records / The state51 Conspiracy.
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