Wanna See J Roddy Walston and The Business Perform Live? For Free!

Jan 30, 2018 James Currie Features, Music News, Reviews 0

Fill your February with Love at JBTV!

‘J Roddy Walston and the Business’ Performs LIVE Sat. Feb. 1st at 1:30pm.

Click the link below to RSVP and secure your place now! Perfect treat for the beginning of February, meet the artist and see her perform live at JBTV! https://jbtvmusic.com/event/j-roddy-walston/

Come see J. Roddy Walston and the Business play JBTV!

Heading into Destroyers of the Soft Life, the fourth LP by J. Roddy Walston and The Business set to be released September 29 via ATO Records, JRWATB pursued a brighter, more nuanced sound that teased out the band’s latent pop sensibilities without skimping on energy or attitude. As you press play on the opening track “You Know Me Better”, anthemic guitars scream out of buoyant, hooky lyrics as Walston’s chugging piano supplies a persistent heartbeat. The “bar band” sound of the past has been replaced by an aspirational, booming cacophony that could fill stadiums.

Instead of the raucous bombast JRWATB manifested on their breakout hit album Essential Tremors, the band’s leader had certain rules he was determined to follow on Destroyers of the Soft Life. One was: “Speak/sing clearly, no hiding behind mumbles.” Another was, “D.I.Y. but hi-fi — record ourselves as much as possible but have it sound amazing and full.” The final, most important, rule was, “Nostalgia is a cancer — acknowledge that you are in the present.”

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