Feature: Dream Robbery Make Waves With New Single ‘The Game’
- Flex Admin
- 1 day ago
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'The Game' may catch you off guard on first listen: There is something about a song written in five minutes that either falls apart under scrutiny or reveals itself as exactly as honest as it claims to be, and Dream Robbery's new single is firmly the latter.
The Yeovil, Somerset trio's frontman wrote the track alone one evening, a glass of whiskey beside him, Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space playing in the background, nothing but a fountain pen, paper and an acoustic guitar within reach. As a frontline 999 ambulance worker, his day job feeds directly into the emotional weight carried by 'The Game', a song built on the permanence of love pressed up against the temporary nature of life, drifting between freedom, memory and loss before landing on the simple, difficult truth that everything ends.
What strikes me most is the band's decision to leave the recording alone. No extra trimming, no double tracking, just the instruments and vocals as they were played. It is a choice that could easily backfire, but here it gives 'The Game' its rawness, recorded across five days at Mill Farm Studios and mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer Shawn Joseph as part of a wider five-single collection.
Dream Robbery only officially came together as a band in 2022, though the trio have known each other and made music together since their college years, and that decade-plus of shared history is audible in how tightly the band moves together.
Their influences (The Beta Band, John Martyn, Spiritualized, The Frames, Big Wreck, The Flat Duo Jets) sit clearly within the track, and it is easy to see why the band have drawn comparisons to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Verve and The Stone Roses.
The response so far backs up the listen. A&R Factory's Amelia Vandergast called the band about to steal the scene, Jam in the Van praised the sound and songwriting outright, and a Spanish rock culture magazine picked out the huge guitar tones and raw vocal energy running through the collection. Add in festival appearances at Godney Gathering and a run of shows planned in South Korea this October, and Dream Robbery look like a band building real momentum behind the melancholy.
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