Ruth and Brookln Dekker did the right thing in sitting down to write and record together with the ultimate aim of producing a collection of alternative intelligent folk/pop songs that provoke and inspire the right kind of thoughts and emotions for anyone who thought acoustically dominant alt pop was beginning to become monotenous! Here we have a a magnificent offering to the ear shrine that's sure to place further demands on the band for a complete album in the very very near future.
Parachutes And Lifeboats opens this majorly brilliant EP up to some lovely dualized vocals with a nice blend of acoustic guitar and piano that provide the backdrop to a finely crafted song. The arrangement is very tight and the added production and engineering elements make the song really quite a treat for the CD player as well as to the entire household! Walls, meanwhile, comes to us directly from Ruth and Brookln's front room with the sparkle of the fretboard and piano keys and with that superior blend of vocals that these guys are going to be honoured for. I especially love the lyrics and the vocal arrangements for Wall and I'm so glad I got to review this before anyone else at IOM!
Even in the darkness makes for another musically sensitised massage of the senses and what's particularly intruiging is the way Ruth's voice acts like like brush strokes to the parts of us that were previously just plain old canvas! It's a nice and cleverly innovative approach to their songwriting that makes Rue Royale something very special and again I make the formal request for an album of this kind of standard to be appear as soon as possible please!
Don't you think Everything Comes From You Anyway is a fantastic title for a song? Wait till you press the Play button.. what a real treat for the senses! There's some smart tight and intelligently mixed harmony work going on but the real pride of place lies in the unique delivery and expression - songsmith stuff indeed!
By the time you get to the last track - UFO, you're pretty much a fan with the usual sense of new-band wonder and again you're remnded that your listening to something young, elvolving, and very special. I have no doubt that we'll be hearing alot more from Rue Royale and when we do... I want to be able to say... 'See.. I told yaaaaaaa!!!
