REISSUE (previously on Three Gut Records). If Royal City's debut was pencil-drawn, tentative, and fragile, this is bold, full-color evidence of what two years of touring do to a lo-fi bedroom band, though they haven't lost an ounce of their hushed, sweet charm. It sounds like they've hauled their gear up every club staircase in North America, and they flex every new muscle on the first 60 seconds here: stuttering drums, pulsing country bass, rich acoustic guitar, drunken blues, spacey banjo, starlit piano,...   [ read more ]

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Limited to 4,500 copies! For a generation of Guelph music fans, Royal City was something akin to a supergroup. From his early teens, Aaron Riches was a figurehead in the city's hardcore punk scene, fronting numerous politically charged punk bands and promoting DIY gigs. Tracing punk's spiritual heritage back to Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Aaron found himself drawn to the acoustic guitar and began writing softly strummed songs about streetlights, Shakespeare, dogs, and broken hearts, all sung in his creaky...   [ read more ]

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For a generation of Guelph music fans, Royal City was something akin to a supergroup. From his early teens, Aaron Riches was a figurehead in the city's hardcore punk scene, fronting numerous politically charged punk bands and promoting DIY gigs. Tracing punk's spiritual heritage back to Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Aaron found himself drawn to the acoustic guitar and began writing softly strummed songs about streetlights, Shakespeare, dogs, and broken hearts, all sung in his creaky, distinctive voice. This...   [ read more ]

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