By: Mia Zajac
Hi everyone and welcome back to another week of The Concert Corner posting about stuff. I want to start out that I’m really so thankful for all of the new followers and the reaction to my Small Artist Spotlight posts!!!! It’s actually gone even better than I thought it would, so thank you for making it not flop. And a HUGE thank you to The Redroom for being the best interviewees a girl could ask for. It was the first interview I’ve actually ever done so safe to say they took my nervousness extremely well. Since their new song ‘The Woman From Nowhere’ came out last Friday, April 28th you might’ve guessed that this post is about her (or you read the title or saw my Instagram post or got the email or saw my story post, you know).
To begin, The Redroom actually reached out to me first because they liked my blog (It’s still insane to think that anyone enjoys what I write) and wanted me to give their new song a listen before it came out. Obviously, I had to jump onto Spotify and see if I liked their music because I was not about to say yes and then do them a disservice, that’s messed up.
Safe to say listening to their song ‘Nostalgia’ that came out in 2020 got me hooked. I’m actually clinically insane for how many times I’ve listened to it. I basically knew that ‘The Woman From Nowhere’ wasn’t going to miss.
Some quick background on The Redroom. They’re a Manchester-based band composed of Jess Lewis their rhythm guitarist and lead singer, Matt Dodds on keys, Charlie McDonald on drums, Jake Elliott on lead guitar, and Dom Aldridge on bass.
Now on to the actual review of their single ‘The Woman From Nowhere’. The notes that I took based on my first impression were set up like this:
I love the bass in the beginning i was like mouth open
Giving wild west but in a good way
Jess is giving Santana from glee or amy winehouse
It's like sitting in a smokey bar while people play pool and it feels like you’re in a totally different world where time moves slow
I like the closing sound with the weird instrument
Reminds me of ellie goulding a little
I like the addition of the violin or whatever in the bridge/last verse part
(Those are the actual notes I took, aren’t they so professional? The last one is my favorite because it’s absolutely wild)
The beginning bass notes are actually insane, they’re really nothing special but I think it sets the theme of the song so well. You feel it in your chest. When I spoke with the band Jess talked about how Charlie on the drums in this song really added a kinda walking element and after she said that I saw exactly what she meant. That’s definitely a stand-out part of the song for me. It adds to the idea of ‘the wild west’ that I hit on in my notes. It’s like I’m with the Woman from Nowhere and we’re just kinda floating wherever our lives lead us to. Now the chorus is my actual favorite part. Jess’s vocals are raw in a way that you get to hear her voice waver, that it isn’t supposed to be perfect it’s natural just like the theme of this woman she met at a festival that she’s talking about. We also get to see this kinda echo effect (I have no clue how to explain what I’m trying to say so bear with me, just listen to the song and you might get it. Hopefully) where Jess sounds far away almost as if she’s in the desert I was talking about before and her voice is bouncing off of the canyon walls around. We really get to see the band's music shining through here and I am obsessed when we get that. Now for the bridge, I like how we get more of Matt’s keys having a spotlight. I love when bands implement someone on keys, I think it adds a really special and unique element to songs compared to the typical guitar, drums, and bass combo every band has.
Overall, I’m super happy that the Redroom reached out to me. And I’m even happier that my reviews and ideas on them have rubbed off on people in my life (shoutout to Meg for adding ‘The Woman From Nowhere’ to her playlist and giving me a heart attack in art club on Sunday). ‘The Woman From Nowhere’ is a must listen, it implements something most modern female lead bands don’t really lean towards.
(Also a small update on my posts: I'm going to start alternating my Small Artist Spotlight posts with my regular Blog Posts starting on June 1st!)
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