Round Trip built a hallucinogenic rock opera around the serotonin in their seminal single, ‘Becoming Dust’

If you devilled Genesis with swathes more psychedelia, sharpened the guitars into angular jangly grooves, augmented the choruses in the vein of Journey, threw traditional rock nostalgia songwriting formulas by the wayside and adopted the affecting vocal presence of Paul Simon, you would be left with something in the vein of the rapturously cathartic seminal single, Becoming Dust from Round Trip’s eponymous LP. When you hit play, you instantly reconcile with how the breakthrough band of prodigally feel good sons of 80s inspired melodic rock can only truly be understood through feeling rather than the motifs they borrow and eccentrically distil into their mind-bending amalgamations of progressive jam rock. As they build into an arrangement befitting a hallucinogenic rock opera, there is the affirmation that Round Trip are equal parts rock stripes and soul. The guitar lines coil and uncoil around the rhythm section, keys shimmer at the edges, and the vocals carry the kind of sincerity that makes reflection feel like a communal act rather than a solitary spiral. While they reach across the stylistic spectrum, their consistency remains in the camp of groove-driven serotonin. Away from the studio recording of Becoming Dust, the band has been steadily refining […] The post Round Trip built a hallucinogenic rock opera around the serotonin in their seminal single, ‘Becoming Dust’ appeared first on A&R Factory.

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If you devilled Genesis with swathes more psychedelia, sharpened the guitars into angular jangly grooves, augmented the choruses in the vein of Journey, threw traditional rock nostalgia songwriting formulas by the wayside and adopted the affecting vocal presence of Paul Simon, you would be left with something in the vein of the rapturously cathartic seminal single, Becoming Dust from Round Trip’s eponymous LP. When you hit play, you instantly reconcile with how the breakthrough band of prodigally feel good sons of 80s inspired melodic rock can only truly be understood through feeling rather than the motifs they borrow and eccentrically distil into their mind-bending amalgamations of progressive jam rock. As they build into an arrangement befitting a hallucinogenic rock opera, there is the affirmation that Round Trip are equal parts rock stripes and soul. The guitar lines coil and uncoil around the rhythm section, keys shimmer at the edges, and the vocals carry the kind of sincerity that makes reflection feel like a communal act rather than a solitary spiral. While they reach across the stylistic spectrum, their consistency remains in the camp of groove-driven serotonin. Away from the studio recording of Becoming Dust, the band has been steadily refining […]

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