ROAM To Release Debut Album 'Backbone' In January 2016, Share Video For New Single Deadweight

ROAM will release their debut album, 'Backbone', on January 22 via Hopeless Records.

The record follows their 'Viewpoint' EP, which was released earlier this year. Discussing the LP, vocalist/guitarist Alex Adam said:

“We always felt like an album had to really make a statement or it wasn’t worth doing. Production, sound, songwriting - everything needs to make a significant step up or it’s just another release, nothing special. There are a few songs on the album that we wouldn’t have been confident enough to write or put out as our younger selves. It took a lot of time for us to make that transition and I think 'Backbone' is a word that signifies that. Doing something and being confident about it, despite any risk involved. It’s a lyric in one of the songs on the album and I think it resonates with what we felt we needed during the writing period.
 
"I think people will be shocked for sure, there are definitely some things we’ve not done before like using piano and there’s an acoustic song and just generally a lot more variety in the songs, but I hope people will love it. The thing we were aiming for with the album was to spark some nostalgia by taking influence from a lot of the stuff we listened to growing up as opposed to the new wave of pop punk, and also by taking on a way wider range of influences. I think what happened is we ended up combining a lot of different stuff into the sound we’ve been working towards for a long time.”

Meanwhile, check out the video for the first single to be lifted from the new album, Deadweight, below.

ROAM will play London this weekend as part of the Vans Warped Tour UK. Following this, next month they will hit the road in the US for a co-headline tour with Handguns.

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