Rosa Ramkot

• 1 Nowhere To Go 03:38
• 2 Blame It On Yourself 01:39
• 3 Hollow 04:14
• 4 Zeppelin 05:09
• 5 Claim To Fame 02:30
• 6 The Witness 04:23
• 7 I Think I've Gone Slowly Insane 03:21
• 8 Calm/Down/Supply/Again 03:53
• 9 Too Late 07:12
• 10 Rosa 02:33
• Total Runtime 38:32

Info for Rosa

For three weeks, Ghent trio Ramkot camped in Rancho De La Luna to work on a very worthy successor to debut In Between Borderlands, which shook Ghent's foundations barely eighteen months ago. They recorded the record there under the inspired guidance of the legendary Alain Johannes (known as producer of Queens Of The Stone Age, for instance). The sound of opening track Nowhere To Go also immediately reveals that these Belgians have listened quite a bit to QOTSA, or at least to The Way You Used To Do.

Nevertheless, Ramkot manages to perfectly merge their influences into a sound that is typically their own. Don't ask me how, but they manage to form a certain unity in a very diverse whole, alternating between short crackers (three songs don't reach 2.5 minutes, with Blame It On Yourself being a straight-to-the-point rocker of just over 90 seconds) and epic long trips, such as the six-minute Zeppelin, obviously also a kind of ode to the giants of yesteryear. If you like pounding like Royal Blood, psyching like King Gizzard, bluesing like Jack White, or maybe just want to stoner like Fu Manchu, Ramkot has the right ball of ice cream for everyone with a signature Ramkot rock dip on top.

Ramkot

Ramkot
are a musical wrecking ball from Ghent, Belgium, and representatives of powerful yet danceable rock music. After two EPs and building a reputation as one of the most exciting live bands in Belgium ever, their debut album In Between Borderlines will be released in spring 2023, a razor-sharp 25-minute uppercut aimed at both the head and the hips.

They tour extensively, playing a whopping 100 shows in just one year: from steamy venues and sun-drenched festival stages (Pinkpop, Down The Rabbit Hole) to supporting Metallica in Amsterdam. For their second album, instead of producing it themselves again, Ramkot have hired producer Alain Johannes (QOTSA, Eagles of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures), who invites them to the Joshua Tree desert. For three weeks, Ramkot will be staying in the legendary Rancho De La Luna studio, famous for The Desert Sessions by QOTSA frontman Josh Homme. "We pulled out all the stops and didn't push the accelerator all the time, which allows the music to breathe more. There will be some softer songs that fans don't expect from us." But one thing is clear: every single note still sounds very much like Ramkot. The band will only play a handful of shows this year, including 2000 Trees (UK), Sziget (H), Pukkelpop and Lowlands.

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