ROAM Announce Second Album ‘Great Heights & Nosedives’
The band drops first single Playing Fiction lifted from their sophomore record, Great Heights & Nosedives, out this October.
ROAM have announced their sophomore full-length Great Heights & Nosedives, set to arrive on October 13th. The record is the follow-up to 2016’s debut Backbone and was produced by Kyle Black (State Champs, New Found Glory, Comeback Kid) in Los Angeles, California.
To coincide with the announcement, the band has unveiled brand new cut, Playing Fiction, an infectious slice of pop punk with arena-size chorus and in-your-face straightforward lyrical message. As for the video, well it gets fantastically bizarre as the story unravels.
Alex Adam explains:
‘Playing Fiction’ is really a song about pretending, and the realisation that things aren’t always how they seem. Maybe you’re pretending you’re ok, saying nothing’s wrong when it actually is, or, as is the case in ‘Playing Fiction’, you’re pretending a relationship hasn’t run its course when it has.
The video for the song centres around myself and Costello walking through a town with strange scenes appearing as the day progresses. It all builds towards our realisation that we’re stuck in a fairytale daydream, and we end up being a part of the fantastical world. It was a lot of fun to shoot with all our friends and some cheeky special extras in various costumes. We’ll let you guess as to their identities…
Great Heights & Nosedives will be released on the 13th October via Hopeless Records.
Tracklisting
- Alive
- Left For Dead
- The Rich Life Of A Poor Man
- Playing Fiction
- Guilty Melody
- Open Water
- Curtain Call
- Scatterbrained
- Flatline
- While The World Keeps Spinning
- Home
ROAM are also set to join New Found Glory on their massive 15-date UK tour this Autumn.
September
20 – CARDIFF, Tramshed
21 – OXFORD, Academy
22 – NORWICH, UEA
23 – LONDON, The Forum
25 – PORTSMOUTH, Pyramids
27 – GLASGOW, ABC
28 – NEWCASTLE, Academy
29 – MANCHESTER, Academy
30 – BIRMINGHAM, Academy
October
02 – LEEDS, Academy
03 – NOTTINGHAM, Rock City
05 – BRISTOL, Academy
06 – LONDON, The Forum
07 – LONDON, Electric Ballroom
08 – LONDON, Underworld
