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we've picked up a couple of reviews for the desert's call, stoked! starting here with the beat comment because it's soo good.
Beat (Aug 09) The Desert's Call Rogerthat The Desert's Call is a monumental disc that has been catapulting the young four piece to a new level of recognition and the outfit are only getting better and exponentially more awesome live. RAVE MAGAZINE ROGERTHAT – The Desert’s Call Wednesday, 12 August 2009 | (Sureshaker) The long-awaited debut album from these hard-to-categorise rockers Over the years, we at Rave had Rogerthat pegged as a soul/funk surfer outfit and psychedelic reggae-rockers. By the time they released Green Room, the single preceding this album, we were using words like fuzzy and bluesy, with both Bob Dylan and Cream references. Whatever is the right tag, it’s clear this Gold Coast outfit have learnt a few valuable lessons by looking backwards. And they put them to good use here. In one sense, they’re like more recent acts Kings Of Leon (in Somewhere Between) and Gomez (in You’re Not Alone), cherry-picking their influences and somehow jamming them together organically. But (good thing too), they’ve found their own method of cobbling these different sources together, from the counter-cultural blues-rock of White Lines homing in on the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and the lazy-afternoon, semi-reggae lope of Crazy Times to the marimba shimmer of The Velvet Sons. They reach for the outer limits with the stoned-hippie acoustic strum of Grow Your Gardens, until a big guitar chug zooms in on the pastoral patch. Then there’s the strange static that permeates Tangerine Bird. Hmmm! But there’s no denying these guys have developed a style that definitely engages, regardless of what we call it. BILL HOLDSWORTH |
www.abc.net.au/oztrax Aug 12 09 Following a European tour in early 2008, Rogerthat returned home to commence work on their debut album, The Desert’s Call. Recently released, the album has given the band another excuse to hit the road. Having just completed another European assault, this time touring through France, Rogerthat have returned to Australia for a national tour in support of the new album. Fans of wild-haired and bearded, Aussie Rock will find much to enjoy on ‘The Desert’s Call’ as well as at their increasingly popular live shows. The word is spreading about Rogerthat. Find out why, by sampling “Green Room” from ‘The Desert’s Call’, right here. TSUNAMI Aug 7 ROGERTHAT
The Desert’s Call
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Rogerthat are a hard one to peg. With a blend of raw reggae ... and psychedelic, I cannot help but hear late ‘60s/early ‘70s rock n’ roll through their work. Green Room screams of The Rolling Stones ... and vivid memories of Mr. Blonde cutting off the ear of a bound and gagged cop in Reservoir Dogs flood the mind as Stealers Wheel’s resonates through Nineteen. The reggae does, however, shine through on some songs, with The Velvet Sons, White Lines, Crazy Times and track 10 (pretty sure it’s Into The Unknown) all teeming with the rhythmic off-beat nature of the genre. The Desert’s Call is an eclectic production ..without doubt enjoyable.
(Sleeve) Scene magazine (July 15) - ‘The Desert's Call' Rogerthat (Sureshaker)... it all makes sense when you learn that Rogerthat spent several days at a time, unguarded and unkempt, in deserts. The long, Amish-resembling facial hair that each band member appears to sport is a tell-tale sign that they've spent copious amounts of time touring from coast to coast, eating and sleeping in a beat-up Ford Transit van. 'The Desert's Call' tells the tale of this life on the road, with tracks such as 'Somewhere Between' and 'When The Night Is Gone' creating some beautiful word-imagery that hints to the mystery and isolation that these guys felt while away. Their previous release had included bluesey and reggae influences, however 'The Desert's Call' redefines the band's sound, presenting a more clear-cut psychedelic rock out. http://scenemagazine.com.au/index.php/reviews/cd-reviews
RAVE 19 (single review) "... safer that we let them wander around, beards and arse length hair akimbo, belting guitars continually and trying their hand at some Woo hoo - Sympathy for the Devil style vocals. 19 is a groovy tune combining a soft bridge a hard rock drum solo and several catchily repetitious verses into it's two minutes - more than most contemporary, time aware rockers can in four."
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