A British band that delivered two albums and a handful of sharp EPs between 2012 and 2019.
For a quick sense of their sound, 'Deadweight' and 'Hand Grenade' are good places to start. They're straightforward, energetic, and pretty much what you'd expect from a band called ROAM.
ROAM's catalog captures that specific early-2010s pop-punk energy that felt both polished and restless. Songs like 'Deadweight' and 'Hand Grenade' have that driving, melodic punch that defined a lot of UK rock at the time. They weren't reinventing the wheel, but they wrote solid hooks and played with a clear conviction.
They formed in Southampton in 2012 and put out their debut EP 'Backbone' a year later. The 2014 'Playing Fiction' EP gave them a bit more traction, leading to the albums 'Great Heights & Nosedives' in 2016 and 'Smile Wide' in 2019.
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