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Rog Dutch REVIEW
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****RAVE magazine single of the week:“... sit down in beanbags, sip on cheap red wine from plastic cups, and listen to a bunch of old classic records, trying to spot all the influences we can attribute to Rogerthat’s new single Green Room. They’re a band from the realms of 1970s, temporarily. And they have the kick-arsest collection of beards assembled since of Kings Of Leon were told that stadiums had a strict grooming code. Green Room just has so many layers, finding the influences could take all night. We’ll stick with a couple of the most prominent ones – I can hear The Who in their guitar work, the way it’s fuzzy and bluesy even when it’s turned down in the background. And they’ve listened to Bob’s Like A Rolling Stone more than once. I guess we’re just lucky that Green Room’s so engaging to listen to on repeat.”
**** “Psychedelic of the energetic rather than lysergic model. Rolling drums, spiralling – sometimes spiky – guitars and some near Jim Morrison-model howling. For a band who apparently create most of their noise together in a self-converted shipping container and got themselves to Europe picking up some good support spots on the way, the Rogers are making music worthy of note and notice.” Drummedia Sydney
**** on Faster Louder:
The rock n roll baton is passed on to Rogerthat who twist it in to a highly entertaining hybrid of psychedelic garage, surf rock, reggae and rocksteady. Front man Jesse Bailey is a perfect prototype for the late 70’s rock star. Open velour shirt: check. Giant gem stone necklace nestled amongst a suitable tuft of chest hair: check. Shoulder length mane coupled with ironically huge moustache: check. Golden God stance with arms thrown out, head thrown back and steely gaze into the rafters: check. But these boys aren’t all rock star bark and no bite. Deep reggae vibes, rollicking riffs and thumping bass lines throw the room in to a frenzy. Their single Green Room is a set highlight.
****The Desert's Call RogerthatThe 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. - Beat
**** future rock stars – Peter Barr RTR fm Perth
**** sensational, irresistible – Caroline Samorodin 107.9 fm Vancouver
****ROGERTHAT – The Desert’s Call
(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 - RAVE MAGAZINE
**** www.abc.net.au/oztrax Aug 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.
**** ROGERTHAT
The Desert’s Call
(Sureshaker)
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. TSUNAMI (Sleeve)
**** ‘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 - Scene magazine
**** 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." RAVE magazine
**** SCENE magazine: the globe trotting rock gods
**** thrashingteen blog; "Recorded between touring earlier this year in their shipping container turned studio! ... an amazing job! Every song makes you want to move! The sound is just plain cool! This record takes you back to a time when swine flu wasn't an impending threat, when life was about the good times. White lines" & "crazy times" explain the record. For the full vibe ... find the wisdom of spoz -blog! "It's all here dude! light up a spliff, mix up the peyote paste, let it all melt into one, with a sky fuck full of bats and enjoy the ride!" - Spoz
**** RAGE: clips for both Green Room and 19 played on rage tv.
*** “The Zoo - Sat Sep 27 Although they’re on a writing break between huge European and Australian tours, Gold Coast psychedelic rockers Rogerthat find time to pack their xylophone and head up the M1 to wow the Zooies with lashings of hook-laden groove and hairy blues. With two EPs and an album on the way, the seventies-styled bearded rockers exude a headliner’s stage presence, having played this year’s Big Day Out and the massive Quicksilver Pro show at the Gold Coast. They open with some island-style before rocking out with Hanging On, where the band and audience float along the waves of Lach Leckie’s rolling basslines.” Rave magazine James Stafford
**** They scored with a drum-tight version of Cream’s down-tempo anthem Sunshine of Your Love smack-bang in the middle of their set. Saturday’s show comes at the top of Rogerthat’s second national run in support of their new EP, Vanilla Gorillas.”
Gold Coast Bulletin
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