Sydney Trio Roadhouses Might Just Be Your New Favourite Band
This is sedated rock at its finest.
If you count smokey whiskey and David Lynch movies among your interests, then you should probably get around the new album from Sydney trio Roadhouses.
The band — made up of singer and lyricist Yvonne Moxham, Mess Hall drummer Cec Condon and bassist James Bellesini — have just dropped their self-titled debut off the back off singles ‘Black Lights’ and ‘Drinkin”.
It’s an absorbing listen, with tracks that hover halfway between Lucinda Williams (at her most gothic) and Jeff Buckley circa Live At Sin-é. The majority of the songs were written in Sydney’s inner west (where the band calls home) but they detail a period when Moxham was hovering between the city and LA.
“These songs were written over a couple of years,” Moxham told Australian Musician. “I am generally a slow mover. Each song took a couple of months, but my creative productivity came in between long periods of just living.
“When I hear the songs, I picture the details and vibe of the share houses and bedrooms I was living in at the time,” she continues.
The band recorded the album in just three days, meaning there were a number of tracks left off the album: “Timing dictated how much we could include,” Moxham explains.
Roadhouses will be heading out on the road to play some album launch shows over the next weeks, hitting up Sydney’s Factory Theatre and Golden Age Bar, and Melbourne’s The Labour in Vain. For more details about the shows — and to grab tickets — head to the band’s event page.
Listen to single ‘Black Lights’ below.