Royal Headache – Royal Headache (Vinyl)
Royal Headache's 26 minutes go by quickly, and while it's not all run-and-gun pacing, another ballad (or another "Wilson Street") might have helped a bit with the balance. And, as with any innovation-averse music like this, there's a rousing game of spot the influence to be played if you think you can keep up. But the inclusive, ebullient Royal Headache's simply having too much fun in the present to ever let the past get in their way. "Honey Joy"-- the highest of Royal Headache's many highs-- finds an exuberant Shogun shouting, "honey joy, honey joy, honey joy, boys," a line that, typed out, doesn't look like much of anything. But Shogun, like Brenton Wood in "The Oogum Boogum Song" or Otis Redding in "Happy Song (Dum-Dum)", manages to turn that little sliver of nonsense into a pint-hoisting, mates-toasting embrace. "It just comes out," you say? By all means, keep it coming. – Pitchfork
Tracklist
1. Never Again (02:10)
2. Really In Love (01:42)
3. Surprise (01:31)
4. Psychotic Episode (02:14)
5. Girls (01:39)
6. Two Kinds Of Love (02:27)
7. Back And Forth (02:09)
8. Down The Lane (02:41)
9. Distant And Vague (02:24)
10. Wilson Street (02:38)
11. Honey Joy (02:30)
12. Pity (02:25)
Cat no: WYR?0212
Royal Headache's 26 minutes go by quickly, and while it's not all run-and-gun pacing, another ballad (or another "Wilson Street") might have helped a bit with the balance. And, as with any innovation-averse music like this, there's a rousing game of spot the influence to be played if you think you can keep up. But the inclusive, ebullient Royal Headache's simply having too much fun in the present to ever let the past get in their way. "Honey Joy"-- the highest of Royal Headache's many highs-- finds an exuberant Shogun shouting, "honey joy, honey joy, honey joy, boys," a line that, typed out, doesn't look like much of anything. But Shogun, like Brenton Wood in "The Oogum Boogum Song" or Otis Redding in "Happy Song (Dum-Dum)", manages to turn that little sliver of nonsense into a pint-hoisting, mates-toasting embrace. "It just comes out," you say? By all means, keep it coming. – Pitchfork
Tracklist
1. Never Again (02:10)
2. Really In Love (01:42)
3. Surprise (01:31)
4. Psychotic Episode (02:14)
5. Girls (01:39)
6. Two Kinds Of Love (02:27)
7. Back And Forth (02:09)
8. Down The Lane (02:41)
9. Distant And Vague (02:24)
10. Wilson Street (02:38)
11. Honey Joy (02:30)
12. Pity (02:25)
Cat no: WYR?0212
Royal Headache's 26 minutes go by quickly, and while it's not all run-and-gun pacing, another ballad (or another "Wilson Street") might have helped a bit with the balance. And, as with any innovation-averse music like this, there's a rousing game of spot the influence to be played if you think you can keep up. But the inclusive, ebullient Royal Headache's simply having too much fun in the present to ever let the past get in their way. "Honey Joy"-- the highest of Royal Headache's many highs-- finds an exuberant Shogun shouting, "honey joy, honey joy, honey joy, boys," a line that, typed out, doesn't look like much of anything. But Shogun, like Brenton Wood in "The Oogum Boogum Song" or Otis Redding in "Happy Song (Dum-Dum)", manages to turn that little sliver of nonsense into a pint-hoisting, mates-toasting embrace. "It just comes out," you say? By all means, keep it coming. – Pitchfork
Tracklist
1. Never Again (02:10)
2. Really In Love (01:42)
3. Surprise (01:31)
4. Psychotic Episode (02:14)
5. Girls (01:39)
6. Two Kinds Of Love (02:27)
7. Back And Forth (02:09)
8. Down The Lane (02:41)
9. Distant And Vague (02:24)
10. Wilson Street (02:38)
11. Honey Joy (02:30)
12. Pity (02:25)
Cat no: WYR?0212
