Swedish sleaze-mongers The Royal Beggars to release their debut album “Falling To New Heights”
Swedish sleaze-rockers The Royal Beggars return in July 2023 with their long awaited debut album “Falling To New Heights”, the follow-up to three critically-acclaimed EPs, and their first full-length studio record.
Formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2018, The Beggars quickly signed with Stockholm-based LMH Records, releasing their debut EP “Tales From Disgraceland” the same year. Two years later came the six-track mini-album “Wounded Hearts and Bloodstained Souls”, featuring cover art from none other than legendary Dogs D’Amour frontman and renowned bar-stool balladeer Tyla J. Pallas.
2021 saw a move to new label Desert Rambler Recordings, for whom their first release “Jokers and Chainsmokers” was a more introspective acoustic-based affair, showcasing the Beggars’ mellower, late-night whiskey-soaked side, but now they’re back firing on all four raucous-and-raunchy cylinders with their full-length debut “Falling To New Heights”.
Sleazy, trashy, with a true old-school rock n’ roll heart reminiscent of the best of The Stones, The Dogs, Seventies Bowie, and Hanoi Rocks, but with a rootsy, Country and Americana twist that evokes Waylon Jennings and David Allen Coe, “Falling To New Heights” is ten tales of heartbreak and hard liquor dripping in honesty and storytelling.
Recorded at Tilt Studios on the Swedish West Coast, hard-edged guitars and nicotine-rough vocals meld with open-tunings, harmonica, and slide guitar steeped in outlaw country, blues, and out-and-out rock n’ roll. Amongst the swaggering, debauchery-soaked raunch is softer, down tempo ballad ‘Wasting My Time Away’, whilst ‘Ain’t That Pretty’ features a stunning duet between Royal Beggars vocalist David Roobert and Swedish singer Maja Van Hogerlinden Olausson.
“Falling To New Heights” will be available on CD and Vinyl as well as the usual digital platforms and is preceded by first single “Unholy Roller” on the 14th June. The album follows across all formats on the 12th July.
"Lonely Dead Red Rose" video off "The Royal Beggars" EP "Wounded Hearts N' Blood Stained Souls".
The Royal Beggars are:
Vocals, guitars, harmonica: David Roobert
Guitars: Jonas Heimdahl
Bass, piano: Simon Rangstedt
Drums and percussion: Emil Thoressen
Additional Vocals on ‘Ain’t That Pretty’: Maja Van Hogerlinden Olausson
Recorded by Max Dahlby at Tilt Recording Studios.
Mixed by John Wängelid Floren at Storm Studio
Mastered by Peter In de Betou at Tailormade Music Production
Cover art by Max Ljungberg. Other artwork by Caesar Ivarsson
