Alone at the Microphone
Rough Trade
2001
Rating: 6 sweet pastries out of 10
Royal City gives us a decent alt-country-ish slab of music from this crew of Canadians. I enjoyed, but wasn’t blown away by their previous release "At Rush Hour the Cars", and I feel the same about this album. Both are somewhat forgettable, but when you’re actually listening to them you like it well enough. The new album has a bit more backbone to it from a rock point of view though – where the first was almost marked by it’s lack of music it was so delicate, this release finds the sound much more fleshed out in that ‘this is a band and not just one dude’ kind of way. They often get compared to Neil Young, but maybe that’s just because of the similar nationality – the music sounds quite different to me. I can’t even really think of any specific bands to point to, but more of an overall feeling; a very mellow vibe, making me think of lazy Sunday afternoons looking at the rain through the window, reading a good magazine. Just like the magazine, Royal City might not stay with you too long, but you enjoy it while it lasts.
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