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We adored last year's 'Mosey' with it's Beck meets Lee Hazlewood country and would've been happy with more of the same but the super prolific Canadian troubadour has topped it with 'Modern Pressure'. It's like Blonde on Blonde recorded at Abbey Road, the energy on the record is astounding and them hooks are so sticky.

Ontario-based artist, poet, musician and performer of international acclaim. A genre-defying student of musical experimentation and a brilliant multi-instrumentalist, Romano is acutely well versed in the languages of melody, shape, lyric construction and song arrangement.

Apt in its title, MODERN PRESSURE will surely prove to be his most explorative endeavor to date. The twelve tracks pick up where 2016’s critically celebrated MOSEY left off, boldly asking, “What age is this? What blooming weight do we carry through these stolen streets?” Written in observational scrutiny beneath the overcast atmosphere of 2016, the record vigorously tackles the present-day heaviness we contain in the jotting bones of our guilty expressions. It pleads for the restoration of empathy and resonance, to fill the empty chamber once again. The recording phase for MODERN PRESSURE took place in a minimalistic cabin in secluded Finnsäs, Sweden over the month of August 2016 (with additional string and horn players being added at Baldwin Street Sound in Toronto, ON in October, 2016). Engineered by long-time collaborator Kenneth Meehan, the fevered pace of work lent itself to the unrestrained and undeviated nature of the songs themselves.

Tracklisting
1. Ugly Human Heart Pt. 1
2. Modern Pressure
3. Roya
4. The Pride Of Queens
5. When I Learned Your Name
6. Sucking The Old World Dry
7. Ugly Human Heart Pt. 2
8. Impossible Green
9. Jennifer Castle
10. Dancing With The Lady In The Moon
11. I Tried To Hold The World (In My Mouth)
12. What's To Become Of The Meaning Of Love