One of the beauties of music is there is no right or wrong when it comes to creating your sonic masterpiece.
Sure, some sounds and genres might blend better than others but at the end of the day, there are no rules or limitations except those we place on ourselves.
Which is a good thing for Yorkshire four-piece Rothschild whose eclectic sounds and structures defy most conventional boundaries but somehow work.
“It was more about less emotion and let’s just get something out there that’s heavy and have fun with it.”
Danny Morris
Their music is full of timing and tempo changes, often switching things to almost unbelievable levels, but through sheer grit, determination and an abundance of talent and vision these four Englishman succeed where many others would fail.
Or not even bother trying.
With the recent release of the band’s debut EP Broken Man, Rothschild boldly laid their musical souls bare to a world that too often ridicules and scrutinises without actually listening. But this didn’t phase the band who, in my humble opinion, have delivered one of the most scintillating, brutal, honest and engaging bodies of work this year to date.
Vocalist Nathan Morris and guitarist Danny Jowett sat down with HEAVY last week to tell us more about the band and dissect the EP.
“It started around four years ago,” Morris offered, “just because we wanted to start gigging and playing shows and writing music again because we hadn’t done it for a few years. We had a few line-up changes and everything like that, but now we’ve finally got one settled and released an EP. We just wanted to combine all the genres we love in heavy music and see if people like it.”
Music traditionalists would probably shy away from Rothschild’s music, but then again, the band didn’t make it for people who aren’t prepared to fully immerse themselves in the experience.
“There’s a calculated risk to that aspect of it (our music),” Morris measured, “where we thought we could put a breakdown in here. It might not work, oh. But after a while, and we started playing them live before recording them we worked out what people were responding to in the audience and things like that.
There’s always a risk putting anything together that has so many weird and different structural elements.”
In the full interview, the boys talk more about their sound and where it comes from, mixing it together so much but still keeping it cohesive and Broken Man musically. We also run through each of the six tracks on the EP and read out what the HEAVY review said about them and how accurate we were in our assessment.
