Rose Tiger have released their debut album ‘The End Forever’.
Taking influence from 70’s glam rock to early 2000’s house, their debut release is out now via Upton Park.
Speaking of the album, Rose Tiger said: “Having the album out after 5 years of hard work and many questionings about how to keep this project going in the midst of Covid (I had to leave London to get back to my parents in France) brings us a lot of joy and relief. We’re also very proud of it because we truly did what we wanted to do and what we wanted to hear out there without any compromise. Never in the writing process I thought about what people would think, so it’s definitely a bit crazy. But that’s also what makes it better than our previous releases, because back then I was truly overthinking the whole thing to get a certain amount of popularity. Now that I’m getting older I don’t really care about that anymore.”
To celebrate their album release, Rose Tiger shared with us 5 tracks that influenced ‘The End Forever’.
The Lemon Twigs – Never In My Arms, Always In My Heart | Listen via Spotify
I really have to put that song first because this is the opening track of their second album ‘Go To School’ which is the record that made me write my own rock opera. I was already a Lemon Twigs enthusiast, but this song is special to me. I was feeling a bit depressed the day it was released (I was on my way to play a horrible solo gig with Rose Tiger at a random birthday party in the countryside). But as soon as this song started blasting in my car, I rejoiced, and the more I was going through the album the happier I was getting (even though most of the lyrics are pretty dark). It literally made me so happy that I said to myself “I want to do something similar”. So I decided to make an album from a story I wrote a few years before, and to have as much fun as I could in the songwriting process.
Queen – Somebody To Love | Listen via Spotify
It would have been silly of me not to mention Queen, the first band that I listened to as a child and the act that gave me my first taste of glam rock. The grandiloquence of the songwriting and the insane stacking of vocal harmonies on ‘The End Forever’ is definitely a result of this musical shock from childhood. I know that it is very tricky and potentially dangerous to flirt with such a reference, but for this album I decided not to be afraid of anything, and to do just what I wanted without thinking of what people would say. I picked this song because we used this kind of 6/8 slow shuffle beats quite a lot on the album, and this is definitely the song that introduced me to this metric in a rock context.
Richard O’Brien – Science Fiction / Double Feature | Listen via Spotify
I was introduced quite recently to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, during the process of writing the album actually, and it instantly spoke to me. I loved the general vibe of the movie, and this track really moved toward the kind of things I wanted to write. Actually there was a song where I was introducing the characters of my story, some kind of opening title just like this one, but it didn’t make the cut to the final record. I think that musical theater in general influenced me during the writing of ‘The End Forever’, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show is part of its cinematographic, gloomy and glamourous inspiration.
Paul McCartney – A Love For You | Listen via Spotify
There’s a whole part of our album that was influenced by Paul McCartney’s early work and mainly his masterpiece. I just love the roughness in the sound of this record, it sounds like it was recorded very quickly but the songs are so good! We tried to capture that vibe on a song like ‘When You’re Here’. I really wanted it to sound like it was recorded on a farm, so I used pots and pans instead of actual drums. That McCartney song is actually a bootleg from Ram (which I find crazy considering how good it is) that was released many years later as a bonus track. Sometimes we play it live and it’s one of my favourites from the set, mostly because Domi can really show off her singing skills on it.
Pink Floyd – In The Flesh? | Listen via Spotify
I really didn’t think there would be a Pink Floyd song on this list, especially cause I haven’t listened to that band for ages. But writing this reminded me of how obsessed I was with ‘The Wall’ as a kid, and I realise only now how much it nourished my rock opera imagination and inspired me to make this album in a very subliminal way (even though at the time I couldn’t get the deepness of the story). I picked this song cause I just love intro songs on albums in general. I find them quite impressive most times, probably because artists give their best to make sure to catch the listener’s ear. That’s the kind of impact we tried to make on the intro of ‘I Won’t Go Back’ even though we have a more vintage sound than this Pink Floyd tune (which sounds crazy since we recorded it in 2021 and them in the late 70’s).
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