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Things get proper weird in the new video by the pop-punks. You've been warned!
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If you don't like spiders, snakes or ghosts, then the new ROAM video might give you the creeps, but if you like anthemic pop-punk then you've reached the right destination. The quintet have dropped a new video in the form of Alive, which is taken from their upcoming new release, Great Heights & Nosedives.
The LP will be with us on Friday, October 13 through Hopeless Records, and is the follow-up to their impressive debut album, Backbone. Already, we're starting to see ROAM enter a phase of songwriting that feels more grown up, but also taps into the Pop-punk 101; that chorus is catchier than the fidget spinner epidemic.
Not bad, not bad at all, guys.
“Lyrically it sums up the record and defines our lives as a band," says guitarist/vocalist Alex Adam. "The song is really about the last year of our lives, but also a commentary on life in general. It’s about the countless times we got robbed on tour, certain relationships fraying and ending and the way we always seem to make it out by the skin on our teeth in every one of those situations. In general, life is all about highs & lows but it’s the way we deal with them that defines us.”
Oh yeah, they'll be the only support to New Found Glory on their 20 years of pop-punk tour. Catch them at the following:
September
20: Cardiff Tramshed
21: O2 Academy Oxford
22: Norwich UEA
23: London O2 Forum Kentish Town
25: Portsmouth Pyramids Centre
27: O2 ABC Glasgow
28: O2 Academy Newcastle
29: Manchester Academy
30: O2 Academy Birmingham
October
2: O2 Academy Leeds
3: Nottingham Rock City
5: O2 Academy Bristol
6: London O2 Forum Kentish Town
7: London Camden Electric Ballroom
8: London Camden Underworld