Guitar music is dead, long live guitar music…A statement literally shouted from the rooftops more times in the last decade than Alex Turner has changed hair styles. Alas, we might be falling into the next decade with a glimpse of hope in the form of Glasgow Indie-Rock 4 piece The Roly Mo.
Now I’m not going to claim that I know anything about the Glasgow music scene, because it’s completely lost on me but from a few clicks I’ve found out that there is a dirty underbelly of clubs that are absolutely brimming with musical talent. In a day and age where we are losing venues quicker than gaining them, it was refreshing to know such things exist, and are thriving.
Back to the subject matter The Roly Mo, named after a once famous kids television mole and sounding somewhere between ‘Beneath The Boardwalk’ Arctic Monkeys, ‘Era Vulgaris’ Queens Of The Stone Age and according to the band themselves Jeremy Kyle. It’s lairy bass lines seamed together with gritty lead vocals and that signature rhythm guitar sound. Featured song ‘I’ll Be Happy When You Die’ is a 2 minutes and 20 seconds rollercoaster of lyrical emotion, a top to bottom sure fire smash hit that you could mistakenly find yourself in a sweaty mosh pit come festival season singing along to at the top of your lungs.
Occasionally a band comes along and both ears prick up within the first few second of their song, The Roly Mo are that band, if guitar music is dead then The Roly Mo have just set fire to the funeral pyre and they are the oncoming resurrection.
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