ROSEBUD

Description

‘ROSEBUD’ is the tenth album from Current Joys, the solo project of Surf Curse drummer Nick Rattigan - and his boldest reinvention yet. Written during a difficult period and reworked alongside producer never goodbye (Danny Dwyer), the record transforms a set of strippedback slowcore songs into a maximalist collage of nu metal, screamo, electronica, hip-hop, powerpop, emo and darkwave. Big anthemic hooks shouted through layers of static, punk chord progressions chewed up by digital manipulation and moments of striking tenderness underneath the noise. It’s also a milestone: ‘ROSEBUD’ is the first album Rattigan is self-releasing, via his own imprint They Are Evil, after years on Secretly Canadian - a return to the artistic freedom of his early Bandcamp days.