Rouge – ‘Edge of the Bed EP’ [Review]
Scrappy. Rough around the edges. Grooves like a hard-rocking, JD-fuelled badass. Opening track Edge of the Bed is (and/or does) all of these things. Strike takes a more laid-back approach, grinding slinky soul and unforgiving backbeats into fine powder and exhaling it into a thick cloud of cigar smoke. Even my laptop’s on-the-hour spoken time updates want in on the action, dropping in in perfect time as if this digital stream were pressing a knife made of ones and zeroes into Apple-branded circuitry.
Third tune Wilderness is already familiar to regular TMMP readers, and closer Limit to Your Love hints at chilled out Chili Peppers and a life spent immersed in hard knocks, surface grit and grace-saving soul melodies. Overall, this is the real deal. The only prim and proper thing about Rouge is the capitalisation of their song titles, and this four-piece prove that you don’t need to play it straight to get the job done.
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This EP is due for release in June. Listen out for news via Rouge’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
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