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Rosemary - Benjamin’s Ego
Rosemary released their follow up to critically-acclaimed debut single 'Suburban Kings' on November 27th. Entitled 'Benjamin's Ego', it once again showcases their robust sound and vocalist Tim Hill's distinctive delivery.
No mere garage-rock ramalama, 'Benjamin's Ego' commences with Tim's winding, auld-folk clarion call and proceeds to twist and turn through coiled passages of snake-charmer melody, bounding Cossack-dance choruses, and strange, tense lyrical melodrama. It's the sound of a band ready to carve out their own path through the English rock scene.
They say an Englishman's home is his castle, and so it is with Dartford's Rosemary: three self-proclaimed "Suburban Kings" making assured, inspired English pop music with many antecedents (try The Kinks, the Libertines, Three Headcoats) but precious few contemporaries. Born in the humdrum commuter-belt town of Dartford, too near to London to boast its own vibrant gig scene, but too far outside to hop on a nightbus much beyond midnight, Rosemary spent the first year of their life in isolation, playing the local pub to a wall of disinterested eyes.
Dartford was not a great place to be in a band, but it was this difficult adolescence that spawned self-released, self-mythologising debut single 'Suburban Kings'. "It was about playing to people that didn't care what you were playing or singing about," says Martin, "And then waking up after having a little too much to drink still feeling annoyed about it. It's about ambition and wanting to escape your immediate surroundings."
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