hypnotic like the early the oh sees records. and like the crystal stilts, they're the flipside to the sunny AM radio optimism of much of the neo-garage scene......
and they've listened to as many psych records as the night beats, so the royal baths know how to make you swoon with a eerie druggy haze.........
"Royal Baths haven't had it easy. In a city where garage rock reigns supreme and new bands form and fade away with the blink of an eye, it's tough to get noticed unless your songs can satisfy punk rock attention spans. But with four- to six-minute tracks and slow, methodical drum beats, Royal Baths have won their way into the hearts of even the most raucous audiences--a testament to both the ability that San Franciscans have to recognize talent when they see it, and also to the incredible music and spectacle that the Royal Baths have created. "The band has its obvious influences--The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3--but to define them by these comparisons would be to vastly oversimplify their sound. Songwriters Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer draw from psychedelic soundscapes; dark, personal, and esoteric subject matter; and a bit of punk's apathetic humor and exigency. They conjure up haunting, reverb-heavy hymns to the degenerate and the broken." --Emily Rose Epstein (SF Weekly, Thrasher Magazine, drummer for Ty Segall)
so you ought to go see ROYAL BATHS in chicago @ the HIDEOUT August 29th.......
and watch out for their double 7 inch split with ty segall coming out on hozac records in the near future.......
(their debut on woodsist "litanies" is also worth looking out for)
rock n roll below.....
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