- Label: 'Think Like A Key Music'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: '21.11.25.'- Catalogue No: 'TLAK1219'
Our Rating:
Pony Tales is the latest album by Arthur Lamonica's current band Rome 56 following on from last years Paradise Is Free The Shirts Legend is back. Rome 56 are Produced by Anand Gan, Arthur Lamonica and Kathleen Lamonica. They are clearly using the vernacular meaning of the albums title rather than singing about animals.
The album opens with One Way Ticket she just had to get away and leave home, over heartlands psychedelic rock, not sure if she is running away or just needed a change, but the guitars carry on like that it will be a pleasant journey, eventually she’ll buy another One Way Ticket home.
Ladder Of Love is almost sappy dreams of love and how you will persuade your beauty of the need to love you, sweet jangly guitars and skittery cymbals dancing across the room.
In The City adventures and psychedelic organs, fun vibes for a chilled-out party scene, grab a drink and wonder how to solve unemployment, getting honest politicians working for the people not self interest, with a tune that will be easily stuck in your head.
90 Days Impossible everyone is walking around shaking heads at how impossible things have become in these darkest of times. Boston town has got him down; Has he been mugged on the common again, or got caught up in the gang war in the North End or seen one too many tv shows or films featuring the Wahlbergs.
Hot August Night a slow Silo's style late night song, for one of those Hot August Nights where you can't play any faster, it's just too damn hot, slow sad strings and the gentlest piano reflecting the steaming streets that Hot August Night.
Shut Down Town everything's gone to pot, is it another pandemic anthem, or the blues for rents being too high to be able to run an local independent shop anymore, everything's gone online and the worlds gone all to hell, a heartlands working class rocker similar to Joe Normal's recent records, that should connect to a wide ranging audience in the world we currently inhabit.
Almost Gone is slow and reflective for our Almost Gone state. Sam The Delivery Man is part modern day hero, part modern day devil dependant on how long it takes for him to arrive with that essential package, of things you used to pop to the corner store for, can they keep their minds clear, this chugs along with a catchy chorus, singing out for Sam The Delivery Man to show up.
The Last Man Standing wonders could he be the last loving human after the apocalypse, surviving through to the other side of that black hole, over laid back blues, strangely it has backing vocals certainly showing more than one survivor thankfully.
May Song is an acoustic strummed memories of one fine day in May, dream like he goes walking in his sleep, things look pretty good again. Diamond is a burnished country rocker for the hopes of real freedom, both from a controlling lover, overbearing feelings of despair that you might one day break his heart.
The album closes with Five Mistakes so he isn't talking politics, on this late-night desperate plea for forgiveness of the consequences of the Five Mistakes, he suggests you go to a hole in the wall venue and seek repentance through song and a lap steel guitar.
Find out more at https://rome56.bandcamp.com/album/pony-tales https://www.thinklikeakey.com/release/534790-rome-56-pony-tales https://www.facebook.com/rome56.arthurlamonica
