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NEW ALBUM RELEASE - RoGue: Play The Game (www.RogueTime.com)Dont let the title fool you this is not a game. The stakes are higher on RoGues sophomore album and the band has waged a full-on vocal war. With eleven strong tracks in their arsenal, a victory is clearly inevitable. The first track Found My Spot is evidence of just how much the band has grown. They are finding their spot in the industry and its at the very top, far above the rest.The band comes bearing rare musical gifts. The album is like nothing youve ever heard and yet often feels familiar. With tracks reminiscent of your first Ani DiFranco concert or a dance party in your best friends basement back in the day, the album reunites you with styles youve missed and gives you unique and new grooves to fall in love with. The band delivers a soundtrack for their generation, but plays across all decades and produces an album that both takes you back and pulls you forward.Like their last album, Touch and Linger, the band experiments with a variety of styles and elements, but still manages to keep it fresh. They try their hand at dance tracks on Dance With Me and I Wish and take your breath away with songs like Jagienka, a rich, earthy, acapella track about living your life to the fullest.Arrangements that leave no chord unturned, gritty, brassy vocals and lyrics that carry you from melancholy to exuberant, Play The Game is unpredictable, but to RoGue fans, definitely not unexpected.Constantly asked to specify the umbrella that their music lies under, the band is what it is. A mixture of rock, soul, jazz, blues, disco, funk and dance. Alternative. But urban. Deeply rooted. But fluid. Elevated. But humble. And Impressive.(Want a hot band bio or album review? Contact Shetia, [email protected])
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