REISSUE (previously on Three Gut Records). If Royal City's debut was pencil-drawn, tentative, and fragile, this is bold, full-color evidence of what two years of touring do to a lo-fi bedroom band, though they haven't lost an ounce of their hushed, sweet charm. It sounds like they've hauled their gear up every club staircase in North America, and they flex every new muscle on the first 60 seconds here: stuttering drums, pulsing country bass, rich acoustic guitar, drunken blues, spacey banjo, starlit piano,...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Defined by their clattering guitars, the scatter-gun pounding of the drums, basslines bursting with hooks and the strikingly voiced melodies of otherworldly front woman Rebekah Raa; Stricken City produce an indie-pop of hitherto untapped gems drawn from influences Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Young Marble Giants and The Slits as well as those lost sources of alternative melodica Life Without Buildings, The Sundays and Bow Wow Wow. The US version also includes two bonus tracks, "Tak o Tak" and ...   [ read more ]

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Defined by their clattering guitars, the scatter-gun pounding of the drums, basslines bursting with hooks and the strikingly voiced melodies of otherworldly front woman Rebekah Raa; Stricken City produce an indie-pop of hitherto untapped gems drawn from influences Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Young Marble Giants and The Slits as well as those lost sources of alternative melodica Life Without Buildings, The Sundays and Bow Wow Wow. The US version also includes two bonus tracks, "Tak o Tak" and "The Traveller...   [ read more ]

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