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April 5th, 2019 3:57am

Fragile Hearts Will Break


Rose of the West “Roads”

“Roads” sounds immediately familiar – the palette is ’80s British goth-adjacent indie, the production is every band since 2000 who’ve wanted to make their own late ‘80s Cure or 4AD album. It sounds like the 121st minute. It sounds like a dream you’ve had before. If Rose of the West were aiming for a pleasant deja vu sensation, they succeeded. But it’s not all aesthetic. “Roads” works in large part because Gina Barrington’s vocal tone has a cold neutrality that feels like whatever you need to hear. She sounds vaguely sad, vaguely scared, vaguely in love, vaguely concerned. The coolness sounds like a cover, but for what exactly? Something is wrong, and maybe this deep grey ambiguity is the root of it.

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