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Roller Trio: New Devices

Read "New Devices" reviewed by Roger Farbey


For their third studio album, Roller Trio underwent quite a sea change with the departure of guitarist Luke Wynter, who played a key role on their eponymously titled debut release on F-IRE in 2012 and its follow-up Fracture on Lamplight Social Records in 2014. His successor is Chris Sharkey whose contributions can be heard on Acoustic Ladyland's Living With A Tiger and three TrioVD albums. All four musicians, however, have the geographical area of Leeds in common. The three original ...

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Roller Trio: Fracture

Read "Roller Trio:  Fracture" reviewed by Phil Barnes


Fracture is an intriguing title for this follow up record to Roller Trio's eponymous Mercury nominated debut from 2012. Recent interview comments spoke of how little that nomination changed their financial situation, so it is tempting to read the title as a reference to the band's relationship with the music industry--after all the album is also their first on their own Lamplight Social label rather than F-ire who handled them previously. Or is the title intended to be a more ...


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