Crashing The Party

Radio 4 frontman Roman has explained the highly charged political opinion on which new album ‘Stealing The Nation’ was based.

Made with Primal Scream and Doves producer Max Heyes, the bands next single ‘Party Crashers’ will be released on Monday (July 19).

“As politically driven as some of our lyrics can be,” Roman explained, ‘Party Crashers’ is just a way of showing people a positive side to life, and deal with things the best way we can. Following 9/11, a lot of people in New York just sit at home getting paranoid, and we’re trying to get people out of that way of thinking.”

“A lot of the lyrics on the record are a commentary on America,” he said to XFM. “The title, ‘Stealing The Nation’ refers to the way American values and freedom have been taken away, but it’s also to do with the way a country can just go and take over another country.

“I think our government has been very cocky, and because we were travelling around the world a lot with the band, we experienced first hand a lot of what other countries think of America.”

Roman also shed light on why the band chose Heyes as the producer of the highly different follow-up to the bands critically acclaimed ‘Gotham’.

“Max saw us at Glastonbury last year and got in touch to offer his services. We really like his work on the Primal Scream album ‘Vanishing Point’ and wanted to try something different. The new record is much more textured and melodic, but we’ll be back in the UK again soon so you can hear it for yourself.”

Radio 4’s tour dates are:
London Islington Academy (August 17)     
Nottingham Rock City (24)                              
York Fibbers (25)                                               
Edinburgh, The Venue (26)
Leeds Festival (27)
Reading Festival (29)
Brighton The Beach (30)