The Roadside Bandits Project - The Roadside Bandits Project (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Following the release of their debut single Sombre Circus ft. Nell Bryden, which received critical acclaim from journalists & DJs around the globe, West London music collective The Roadside Bandits Project now come with My Own Lies ft. Gang of Four vocalist John Sterry & alongside this single, they release their eponymously named album The Roadside Bandits Project.

A co-write between project main-man Santi Arribas & John Sterry, My Own Lies starts with an ominous arpeggiated analogue synth before a blues flavoured groove kicks in. While Arribas delivers on the guitars, bass & programming front, drums on the track are from Jon Finnigan (Gang of Four, Ian Gillan, Julian Perretta) & recorded at London’s Beauchamp Studios (the home of recently passed & good friend of Arribas, Gang of Four’s Andy Gill). Meanwhile Jamiroquai keyboard player Matt Johnson provides electric piano & synths. Mixing was done at Arribas’ studio The Mixing Factory deep in the heart of West London’s Ladbroke Grove.

Lyrically Arribas says of the track “My Own Lies is told from the perspective of a politician whose lack of understanding of key issues makes him lie compulsively to the public, in order to achieve any objective & always end on a manufactured positive note. Reflecting on the current political climate & how policy making is made to be understood, it’s like the running of a nation is now done via uplifting presentations”.

TRACKLIST

1. The Roadside Bandits Project - Dawn
2. The Roadside Bandits Project - Borders
3. The Roadside Bandits Project - Landfill
4. The Roadside Bandits Project - Sombre Circus
5. The Roadside Bandits Project - My Own Lies
6. The Roadside Bandits Project - The Blues Psycho
7. The Roadside Bandits Project - Don't Be No Fool
8. The Roadside Bandits Project - Run
9. The Roadside Bandits Project - Solace
10. The Roadside Bandits Project - Dusk



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