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Artist: The Retreat
About
MEET THE RETREAT. Creating a sensitive approach to rock, an alternate approach to country and an imaginative approach to pop, their music rattles and rolls with heart-meltingly sweet lyrics over well-placed lead guitar pulses and they are a band on the rise. When childhood friends Leigh Elphick and Ross James Tipper quit their high-school born rock’n’roll band to start writing together, they had no idea where it would lead…. Writing and recording demos in Ross’ bedroom at his parents’ house, the pair came up with a multitude and mixture of loveable, carefree and profound tracks. The Retreat was born, and took on a more traditional style of songwriting to their adolescent idols, drawing influence from 60s folk rock, the charismatic Brit-pop of the late 90s and the alt. country twang of the last ten years. After bringing in friends and fellow musicians Adam Collins (bass), Sophia Felton (drums) and Kellie Banyai (keys), The Retreat was ready to go….almost. After locking themselves ...
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Sounds Like
Ben Kweller, The Thrills, Bob Evans
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