06 February 2015 (released)
06 February 2015
Many of you will already know Room 94, after their debut album No Strings Attached reached the Top 30 in March 2014 – a mightily impressive feat for an unsigned band.
Less than a year later, they’re back with a second album. In the first four songs, they pin the listener back with the aggression of first single So What, get you on the dancefloor with irresistible R&B on the Drake/The Weeknd-influenced Too Young and show how they played arenas as support to Union J and Lawson with the ridiculously infectious pop of Dirty Dancing. What follows is even more impressive.
Meet Me On The Dancefloor, Party Anthem and Keep Your Hands Off My Chick are anthemic, hook-heavy rock that recalls the band’s love of You Me At Six, The Offspring and Bring Me The Horizon. Tell Me What Love Feels Like and Monday are ultra-modern slick pop, Good Life is an EDM banger to make Calvin Harris jealous and the starkly confessional ballads Pills and Your Song are a million miles away from production-line slowies.
Then there’s the hilarious Streets homage Xs and revenge epic Poison, whose Queen/screamo hybrid is deliciously deranged. The self-explanatory Party Anthem is equally raucous, leading to tales of dancing til dawn in “a mad Brazilian club somewhere in East London” as Kit admits: “I’ll dance to anything. Not necessarily even music.”
Room 94 is a band and an album as at home on the main stage of Reading And Leeds Festival or shooting hoops with 5 Seconds Of Summer, and one that came easily to its makers. They’ve shown they can make such an accomplished record without the need for co-writers or collabs.
Named after the rehearsal room at their school in St Albans, Room 94 had a simple choice when it came to naming the album. After toying with Black And White and Strings Attached, making it self-titled was obvious. As Sean says: “Room 94 is who we are, and so is this album. We’re reintroducing our sound.”
It’s a bold and adventurous album, while remaining gloriously catchy. There’s room enough for everyone.
Music-News.com caught up with Room 94's Sean Lemon (guitar); Kit Tanton (bass); Dean Lemon (drums) to find out more. Check out our exclusive uncut interview above.
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ROOM 94 – 2015 TOUR DATES
28 February Oxford, O2 Academy 2
1 March Bristol, Thelk
3 March Bournemouth, The Old Fire Station
4 March Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
5 March Glasgow, O2 ABC 2
6 March Newcastle, O2 Academy 2
7 March Sheffield, O2 Academy 2
9 March Liverpool, O2 Academy 2
10 March Manchester, Academy 3
12 March Birmingham, O2 Academy 2
13 March London, O2 Academy Islington
14 March Dublin, Academy 2
15 March Belfast, Oh Yeah Music Centre
