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High (Royal Headache Album)
''High'' is the second and final studio album by Australian punk rock band Royal Headache, released on 21 August 2015 by What's Your Rupture?. Recording There was a gap of over two years between the beginning and end of recording. Sukit said, "About the end of 2012 we forced ourselves to go in record a new record and tracked everything. I think we were all a bit exhausted by the year and we listened back to it and we all thought it was a bit shit. So we lost motivation to work on it. Then we had that break and listened to it and were, 'Oh it's not that bad'. So Shogun finished his vocals and then we mixed it." Critical reception Steve Lamacq of UK radio station BBC Radio 6 Music selected ''High'' as his album of the year, describing it as an "anonymous but brilliant punk album". In October 2017, ''High'' was listed at no.83 in the book, ''100 Best Australian Albums 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Headache
Royal Headache was an Australian punk rock and garage band from Sydney. The band was formed in 2008 and was composed of Tim "Shogun" Wall (vocals), Lawrence "Law" Hall (guitar), Joseph "Joe" Sukit (bass), Chris "Shortty" Shortt (drums) and Gabrielle de Giorgio (keyboards, organ, percussion, vocals). The band released two albums, ''Royal Headache'' (2011) and ''High (Royal Headache album), High'' (2015), both of which earned critical acclaim, and toured the US and Europe. In June 2018, the band announced its dissolution via a post on their Facebook page. History Royal Headache was born in 2008 in a boat shed in Putney, a suburb of Sydney, on the banks of the Parramatta River. It was here that Shortty and Law started jamming. "We just wanted to do something more stripped back," said Shortty of the band's beginnings. He also described it as "[a] back-to-basics rock and roll sensibility". On a trip to Melbourne's ''Flip Out festival'', they handed out copies of their rough instru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |