ROAR
Phoenix-based Owen Evans began ROAR and released the project’s debut record “I Can’t
Handle Change” in response to the untimely demise of his previous band Asleep In The
Sea. Evans misses creating collaboratively, but describes the relationship within that band
as “volatile... I thought it would make more sense to have a non-collaborative project so that
I don't just lose all the songs I had worked on. I'm just not prolific enough to not hang on to
every song I write.” Evans now writes, arranges, and produces ROAR alone, but that doesn’t
necessarily make it less volatile.
The issues tackled are almost a personal attack on himself. Relationship inadequacy, alcoholism,
frustration at not be able to come to terms with loss: these are all issues we can relate to in some
degree. But it’s all carried out through beautiful melodies, lavish arrangements, Flaming Lips-
like spectacle, and a bleakness that can only be born out of the deserts of Arizona. ROAR is
ambitious, lonely music. Who needs collaboration, when you’ve got all this coming from one
person?
The forthcoming 7” EP
I’m Not Here To Make Friends will be released by Really Records
on February 28th.
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“ROAR is what we can imagine to be a child of Cuomo's wide-spread power-pop influence, but just as much the offspring of Brian Wilson playing his piano in the middle of a sandbox filled with dog turds and Van Dyke Parks thinking about dreamy, ginger-scented girls, whose wholesomeness is unparalleled and boys who have the purest (sometimes with devils inside them) intentions toward them that we could possibly expect out of boys of any era.”
-- Daytrotter
”An absolute joy to listen to from start to finish, and shouldn’t be missed by anyone who is a fan of music.”
-- Sputnik Music
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