The Royston Club, fresh from headlining This Feeling’s By The Sea festival, recently released their comeback single, ‘The Patch Where Nothing Grows’. It was produced by Blossoms and The Courteeners cohort Rich Turvey and recorded at Liverpool’s Kempston Street Studio.
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In 2023, the band proved there was still a need for hooks and anthems from bands. ‘The Patch Where Nothing Grows’ is not a departure from that; it is, however, a marked improvement. What were indie licks and charismatic vocal hooks have now strayed into guttural rock ‘n’ roll.
This single is about realising that you only get one chance, and anything short of all or nothing is cheating yourself. Leading the charge is frontman Tom Faithful. He oozed charisma on the debut, but now, his guttural howl is beset with a desperation that seeks and wreaks!
There is somewhat of a 00s renaissance around these days. Some pastiche, too many parodies, what The Royston Club have done here is neither sonically nor the sound is their own. Spiritually, though, the Libertines riots, the guerilla gigs from The Rakes and The Others, the sense that a band could come out of nowhere, play anywhere, and change lives oozes from their new-found fire.
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