Emerging from the fruitful Brighton scene, The RPMs unveil first cut of their forthcoming EP Agents Of Change.

Oh My God takes an ironic turn on the times we live in. The joyous melody is propelled forward by an upbeat rhythm section and Jack Valero’s punctuating vocals. Hearing frustration taken out in a new form of musical landscape is interesting, and The RPMs don’t go down a typical route when lashing out against stagnated youth culture. “kids all in the clubs still singing ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’, there’s just so much that they don’t know”.

Talking about the new release, Jack says:

We’re very aware of how our lives as young people are so heavily under the spotlight of social media likeability these days. Social media has brought great freedoms to people allowing them to connect and share with anyone in the world, but also brings great pressures to be forever feeding the machine. It’s crazy that in the age of information, people seem more uninformed than ever. We are the first generation predicted to be poorer than our parents and young people are turning to each other, social media and their favourite bands to help them understand the world they’ve inherited and we’re trying to understand it too.

We’ve worked so hard on it and very proud how it’s turned out. It feels great to finally be setting it loose on the world! With the addition of a new guitarist, we can’t wait to hit the road and support our new EP.

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Agents of Change is due to be released on June 2nd via Xtra Mile Recordings.

Catch the band at the followig dates:

May

01 – Glasgow, The Hug & Pint

03 – Bristol, Louisiana

04 – London, Thousand Island

05 – Bournemouth, The Anvil

June

03 – London, Camden Rocks Festival

21–23 Bromyard, Nozstock: The Hidden Valley Festival