Black 40g 7″ vinyl
\nHigh quality, super-audiophile disc \u2013 German pressing!
\nSturdy cardboard sleeve
\nStrictly limited to 500 copies<\/p>\n
With \u2018No Second Troy\u2019 ROME return to deliver a machine-backed interpretation of the European blues and a song that is an obvious hit the minute you hear it.<\/p>\n
The unlikely dose of electro twang in a darkly dancy number concocts a seductive yet subtle blast of blasphemy in the world of luxembourg-born singer-songwriter Jerome Reuter.<\/p>\n
ROME are probably best known for creating near-pop hooks from chilly and ominous textures and wringing emotionally poignant choruses from the most sinister depths of the soul. \u2018No Second Troy\u2019 is much more forward in nature.<\/p>\n
Mastermind Reuter again combines personal passion with his passion for mankind at large, in a song pointing to the contrast between the Homeric times when there was the beautiful city of Troy and the times of \u201can age like this\u201d (Yeats) when there is no second Troy to be destroyed and burnt down.<\/p>\n
Musically, however, the organising thrust is cleverly withheld until released for the bridge of the song, only to fall back into the marching suspense of the opening lines, a brilliant piece of dramatic manoeuvring:<\/p>\n
From the port of Aberdeen down to Sicily<\/p>\n
From holy Sintra on to Kyiv<\/p>\n
We have searched the sky<\/p>\n
For what might be some blessed reprieve<\/p>\n
For a dream breaking into waking life<\/p>\n
Written well over a year before Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine, the reference to Kyiv appears uncannily prescient. As a metaphor, Troy which was destroyed and burnt down at the end of a ten-year war, is certainly relevant in a time of conflict. The song\u2019s title was obviously borrowed from William Butler Yeats\u2019 poem about his very personal \u201cHelen Of Troy\u201d; a poem about unrequited love, rejection and blame.<\/p>\n
ROME\u2019s unique hybrid of melody and vulnerability aims to soothe a communal wound for the many listeners who found a spokesperson in the aching songwriting of Jerome Reuter. The purpose of civilisation, however, is not to provide bonfires for eternal or heroic beauty. Europe has burnt like Troy many times over and therefore it cannot not fail. However, one can\u2019t help but wonder if ROME is that new Troy we should aspire to burn for; a symbol of nobility of a passed heroic age, attempting to set up an image to which the present might aspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Black 40g 7″ vinyl High quality, super-audiophile disc \u2013 German pressing! Sturdy cardboard sleeve Strictly limited to 500 copies With \u2018No Second Troy\u2019 ROME return to deliver a machine-backed interpretation of the European blues and a song that is an obvious hit the minute you hear it. The unlikely dose of electro twang in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38893,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[709],"product_tag":[250],"class_list":["post-38892","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-vinyl-r","product_tag-trisol-germany","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.4","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tesco-germany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/38892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tesco-germany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tesco-germany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tesco-germany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tesco-germany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tesco-germany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=38892"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tesco-germany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=38892"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tesco-germany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=38892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}