Roses Kings Castles

RKC, formerly known as Roses Kings Castles was first conceived in 2007 and was originally intended as a side project for Adam Ficek to air the songs that were a little too left field pop for his band Babyshambles. The eponymously titled album was released in 2008 on Adam’s own label ‘The Sycamore Club’ and received substantial cult acclaim.

The debut was followed a year later by a 7” EP, ‘Apples & Engines' and in November 2010 by the second album, Suburban Timebombs, both released in collaboration with 360 Degree Music, at which point RKC had evolved into a six piece touring band, creating a much bigger noise.

Being influenced more and more by Adam's passion for electronic music, the third album British plastic draws upon the brash guitar of classic British acts underpinned with big room production: a sonic scuffle between Buzzcocks and the Beta band.

The album was recorded in Ficek’s makeshift home studio in the aftermath of breaking from Babyshambles. Playing all the instruments himself, except for lead guitar for which he drafted in old pal Patrick Walden, RKC have crafted a gritty piece of quixotic pop, a more muscular sonic punch than heard on previous releases.

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