With their second album ‘Songs For The Spine’ just around the corner, landing on August 8th, The Royston Club have released their fourth single from the new record.
‘Cariad’ follows ‘The Patch Where Nothing Grows’, ‘Shivers’ and ‘Glued To The Bed’, as the Wrexham quartet aim to surpass the success of their #16 debut album ‘Shaking Hips & Crashing Cars’.
As with the rest of the upcoming album, ‘Cariad’ was produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, Rachel Chinouriri).
Guitarist and songwriter, Ben Matthias, commented: “‘Cariad’ was written very soon after a breakup, when I still believed I was in love with the girl and was struggling to come to terms with the relationship ending.
“I had an almost obsessive attachment to the memory of our time together and those memories seemed inescapable, constantly confronting me with what I had lost.“
The Blood Records zoetrope format of ‘Songs For The Spine’ sold-out its entire 500 copy pressing within an hour.
Other formats including vinyl variants, CD and cassette can be pre-ordered HERE.
The band’s official store offers a signed print and a photo booklet with select products and album bundles.
On ‘Cariad’, Ben continues: “In the first half of the song I surrender the relationship to the past and ‘let the air run out’, letting it die.
“However the outro betrays this acceptance as I admit, ‘I still wake up with things to tell you’ and ask to feel her touch again, ‘just once again.’
“It’s a song that, to me, encapsulates just how messy love, sex, memory, and self-worth can be.”
The Royston Club’s summer touring continues with festival highlights including main stage sets at Reading and Leeds Festival plus a run of intimate record store dates.
Their subsequent UK headline tour is almost sold out months in advance, with limited tickets for some shows still available HERE.
Their shows are as follows…
JULY
10th – Manchester, Castlefield Bowl (with Bloc Party)
11th – TRNSMT Festival
12th – Leeds, Millennium Square (with The Lathums)
19th – Llandudno, Venue Cymru Arena (with Travis)
25th – Latitude Festival
27th – Tramlines
AUGUST
2nd – Kendal Calling
5th – Nottingham, Rough Trade (intimate album release event – matinee – JUST ADDED)
5th – Nottingham, Rough Trade (intimate album release event – evening – SOLD OUT)
6th – Bristol Rough Trade (intimate album release event – matinee – JUST ADDED)
6th – Bristol Rough Trade (intimate album release event – evening – SOLD OUT)
8th – Liverpool, Jacaranda (intimate album release event – matinee – SOLD OUT)
8th – Liverpool, Jacaranda (album release event – evening – SOLD OUT)
12th – London, Rough Trade East (intimate album release event – matinee – JUST ADDED)
12th – London, Rough Trade East (intimate album release event – evening – SOLD OUT)
13th – Brighton, Resident (intimate album release event – SOLD OUT)
15th – Hardwick Calling
22nd – Reading Festival
23rd – Leeds Festival
24th — Rock En Seine
OCTOBER – HEADLINE TOUR
16th – Brighton, Concorde 2 (SOLD OUT)
17th – Bristol, Electric (SOLD OUT)
18th – Birmingham, O2 Institute (SOLD OUT)
23rd – Manchester, Academy 1 (SOLD OUT)
24th – Newcastle, O2 City Hall
25th – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom (FINAL TICKETS)
31st – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town (FINAL TICKETS)
NOVEMBER – HEADLINE TOUR
1st – Sheffield, Octagon (SOLD OUT)
15th – Paris, Supersonic Records
18th – Amsterdam, Paradiso Noord (Tolhuistuin)
19th – Cologne, Blue Shell
20th – Berlin, Maschinenhaus
22nd – Hamburg, Nochtspeicher
Check out the new single and pre-order “Songs For The Spine” here: The Royston Club.
Photo Credit: Sam Crowston
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