neu waves presents #159 The Roebucks plus supports

There’s something disorienting about a Roebucks show. 

The four people on stage are in their twenties. They are young, but the sound they make is not. Their music is elemental - the low, churning weight of Henry Brown’s bass, Tom Cotter’s wild and untamed guitar, Sophie Moloney’s primal back beat - they’re following a tradition that is earnt not learnt. And up front, Lola Gordon, her raw, aching voice making the room feel bigger and darker than it was a moment before. 

This is explosive, full-throttle blues-rooted rock music played with the kind of instinctive authority that it usually takes musicians decades to develop. The Roebucks appear to have been born with it. 

sponsored by Southsea Sound - The Deco