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Regent: Beggars Perception
(Self Launched)
DL/Streaming Solely
Out Now
Southampton’s premier Indie/rock outfit Regent return with their second album, Beggars Perception following 2022’s Only a Revolution.
Regent are a 5 piece, made up of Ben Rooke (vocals), Chris Woolf (lead guitar), Ed Cesar (rhythm guitar), Luke Trundell (bass) and Chris Blackman (drums) satisfaction themselves in being purveyors of an rebel, no-nonsense model of rock’n’roll.
I hadn’t heard the band beforehand however while you get an album which it’s mentioned to be one among politics and other people, love and rage, stress and peace, probabilities and alter while additionally concerning common points like the price of residing disaster and governmental corruption, via to extra private reflections on dependancy and psychological well being, redemption and household then I figured it could be price a hear.
Frontman Ben Rooke takes little time in getting straight to the purpose. With a UK normal election looming massive in most individuals’s minds, he seethes on the opening quantity, the title monitor Beggars Perception, “You inform me one thing, some huge fats porky pies. You assume that I’m silly, I see proper via these lies.” There isn’t a hiding that it’s a full dig on the institution and all the things which society is advised to consider. The frontman goes on, “From the pandemic to wars, the price of residing disaster, to the mockery of the federal government, and the way we the individuals have been handled these previous few years. Corruption runs deep worldwide, not simply on this nation… I needed to write down a document that sums these occasions up.”
The message that dominates this album is sufficient is sufficient nevertheless as with every good political album there are additionally extra private tracks providing a slice of actuality nearer to residence too, She Checks My Head has the frontman opening up about his struggles with psychological well being, and but, whereas there are detours into these darker corners of life, themes of silver linings and the salvation to be discovered in hope, peace, and love, in all its kinds are by no means far behind. Relationships are vital to the songwriter as he presents a touching tribute to his spouse’s good nature on Let Me In and celebrates the therapeutic camaraderie he has discovered inside Regent, as he addresses on Right here We Go.
The album accommodates a number of musical influences with a later interval Oasis on the fore with quite a few riffs taken from The Cult and Weapons ’N Roses playbooks alongside the best way, all of which underpin Rooke’s Gallagher-ish supply. I’d love to have the ability to choose somebody up for coming from Southampton and apeing a Mancunian legend however I assume it’s honest recreation on condition that Liam’s primarily based a lot of his vocal stylings on John Lydon. (One monitor, Liberation, really seems like a pro-Pistols monitor too).
Sarcastically my favorite monitor on the album is the closing Set Me Free, which at almost 5 minutes sits other than all the things else on Beggars Perception with the vocal supply extra pure and relaxed. There are parts of Ian Astbury and Bret Michaels in there which, the primary time I heard it had me checking Soundcloud hadn’t skipped to a different artist. It really seems like a distinct band.
A good album which arguably saves one of the best to final. Beggars Perception sees Regent placing a stake within the floor and making a case for a brand new Britain.
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All phrases by Iain Key. See his creator profile right here or discover him on X (Twitter) as @iainkey
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