We’ve had an eye on Calgary’s Reuben and the Dark for a while now, first featuring them briefly in 2012. Since then, the band have signed to Arts & Crafts and their debut album sees them working with Chris Hayden (Florence & the Machine), Stephen Kozmeniuk (Madonna, Nicki Minaj) and Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele).
I think it’s fair to say they have gone up in the world since our humble post (although probably not as a consequence of said post, as hard as that may be to believe) and their ambitions to breach the indie/mainstream divide comes through in the music, mixing folk and rock to produce hearfelt, emotive tracks that would be at home next to other popular folky acts, you know, Mumford & Sons, Ben Howard, late-Frightened Rabbit, that sort of thing.
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The single ‘Rolling Stone’ will be released in the UK on 24th March.