{"id":988,"date":"2017-10-25T11:17:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-roam-great-heights-and-nosedives\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T21:20:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:20:34","slug":"review-roam-great-heights-and-nosedives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-roam-great-heights-and-nosedives\/","title":{"rendered":"Review:\u00a0ROAM – Great Heights and Nosedives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’ve got to hand it to Roam<\/b>, they’ve worked their socks off since the release of last year’s debut, the well-received ‘Backbone’<\/i>. They’ve played anywhere and everywhere, contributed to a Green Day tribute album and writen the new record. We do like a band that are willing to put the effort in, so it’s quite satisfying that the difficult sophomore record, ‘Great Heights and Nosedives’<\/i>, largely fulfills the Eastbourne pop-punker’s early promise and sees them steadily moving forwards.<\/p>\n

The bright and breezy riffs of ‘Alive’<\/i> starts it all off with a straight-ahead slice of catchy pop-punk. It’s pretty safe but makes all the right noises and segues nicely into the slightly harder edge of ‘Left for Dead’<\/i>, which is also deep in the comfort zone, but like everything else, well-executed.<\/p>\n

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What sets Roam<\/b> slightly apart from their peers is the freshness they bring to the genre. Sure, at times they stay within the predictable, but they also know how to put a twist on an arrangement to inject a little life. ‘The Rich Life of A Poor Man’<\/i>, for instance, steps outside the usual template effectively, while ‘Scatterbrained’<\/i> makes for a quirkily cool tune. ‘Home’<\/i> also features an interesting arrangement and is a nice way to round things off.<\/p>\n

However, some of their rougher edges have been smoothed off at the expense of the raw power that shone through on their debut; there isn’t anything here that rocks as hard as ‘Deadweight’<\/i> for example. Even so, if you are going to embrace a more obviously commercial sound, then you should nail it, which is exactly what they do. Every chorus is a winner, ‘Playing Fiction’<\/i> is a stone cold banger of a single and ‘Flatline’<\/i> is a seriously good tune. Even on the less memorable tracks like ‘Open Water’<\/i> it is all classily delivered.<\/p>\n

All told, this is a highly enjoyable record, which despite being on the safe side offers up plenty of quality and should cement their growing reputation.<\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

‘Great Heights and Nosedives’<\/i> by Roam<\/strong> is out now on Hopeless Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Roam<\/b> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>| Twitter<\/a>|Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Edward Layland (@EdwardLayland<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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