Manchester’s Rolla are set to release their second EP ‘We Owe You Nothing’ on Friday 7th March via Run On Records.
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On their debut EP ‘Nothing Less Than Everything’, Rolla largely shed their love of early Kasabian sonically and began to venture into the expansive world of The Verve. ‘We Owe You Nothing’ witnesses a stylistic return to their early singles ‘Thinking of Tomorrow’ and ‘Sweet Lullaby’.
The EP is bookended by ‘We Owe You Nothing’ (title track) and ‘The Slide’. It's less a return to this singles and more a cataclysmic earth-shattering display of how far they’ve come as a band. The former is beset with intoxicating violence via Luke Gilmore’s destructive basslines. The nods to ‘Fuckin’ in the Bushes’ and ‘666 Conducer’ give this chaotic joyride a sense of chest-beating glory that is impossible to ignore.
Gilmore doubles down on this hypothesis ‘The Slide’. His opening bass lines alongside the backwards guitars fade into the febrile psychedelia like a dystopian nightmare induced by speed. Dank and vicious landscapes emerge around the snarling roar of frontman James Gilmore which cause unnerving wall of sound.
Elsewhere, ‘It Ain’t Easy’ continues the mayhem with basslines menacingly funking like Mani era Primal Scream and on ‘Beautify Lie’, they mercifully change track with a more simplistic Richard Ashcroft crafted melody.
Rolla are currently on tour with Pastel. Do not arrive late!