Rue Royale

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Lunacy 00:00 Tools
Guide To An Escape 04:08 Tools
Flightline 03:12 Tools
Halfway Blind 03:37 Tools
Parachutes and Lifeboats 04:27 Tools
Get Me Standing 03:59 Tools
Blame 03:12 Tools
Crater 03:38 Tools
Foreign Night 00:00 Tools
Knocked Back To The Start 03:21 Tools
Meant to Roam 00:00 Tools
We'll Go On Alright 03:59 Tools
Even in the Darkness 00:00 Tools
Ufo 00:00 Tools
The Search and Little Else 00:00 Tools
Pull Me Like a String 03:32 Tools
These Long Roads 00:00 Tools
Tell Me When You Go 00:00 Tools
Something to Write Home About 00:00 Tools
Set Out to Discover 03:47 Tools
On and On 00:00 Tools
Stars 00:00 Tools
Signs Are All Gone 00:00 Tools
Confidence in Gravity 00:00 Tools
Changed My Grip 03:57 Tools
Tiny Parcels 00:00 Tools
Should Not Have Closed My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Dark Cloud Canopies 00:00 Tools
Almost Ghostly 00:00 Tools
Try As They Might 00:00 Tools
Settle in Settle Down 00:00 Tools
U.F.O. 00:00 Tools
Carving Up Islands 00:00 Tools
Every Little Step 00:00 Tools
Brought Up Somewhere Else 00:00 Tools
Adhesive 00:00 Tools
UFO (Extended Version) 00:00 Tools
Fighter - Rue Royale Version 00:00 Tools
Walls 00:00 Tools
What Next Dear One 00:00 Tools
Say Now, Would You 00:00 Tools
Snow on Snow (The Bleak Midwinter) 00:00 Tools
Thrown by the Wind 00:00 Tools
Everything Comes From You Anyway 00:00 Tools
Chip Away 00:00 Tools
Deck the Halls 00:00 Tools
Say Now Would You (Plaisir de France Remix) 00:00 Tools
Are We Too Close 00:00 Tools
For Which Is Heavy 00:00 Tools
Facing Forward 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
Locked into It 00:00 Tools
The Rain Came and Gave 00:00 Tools
Spiralling 00:00 Tools
Say Now, Would You - Plaisir De France Remix 00:00 Tools
Linear Lies 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know What It Is 00:00 Tools
Why Must I Build 00:00 Tools
(Parallel) Lines 00:00 Tools
Eagerly Hunting 00:00 Tools
Set Out to Discover - Edit 00:00 Tools
At a New Pace 00:00 Tools
Halfway Blind - Night Plane Remix 00:00 Tools
Awakened 00:00 Tools
Pull Me Like A String (Heart Island Remix) 00:00 Tools
Set Out to Discover (Edit) 00:00 Tools
The Anchors in Your Heart 00:00 Tools
Pull Me Like a String - Heart Island Remix 00:00 Tools
We Wish You a Merry Christmas 00:00 Tools
In the Bleak Midwinter (Snow on Snow) 00:00 Tools
Guide to an Escape - Acoustic Version 00:00 Tools
Guide to an Escape - Hundreds Version 00:00 Tools
Not So Distant Land 00:00 Tools
Fighter - Hundreds Cover 00:00 Tools
Fighter 00:00 Tools
U.F.O. (TV Noir Version) 00:00 Tools
01 Deck the Halls 00:00 Tools
Say Now Would You (Plaisir de France Remix) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
06 Knocked Back to the Start 00:00 Tools
03 Halfway Blind 00:00 Tools
02 Blame 00:00 Tools
play Fighter by Hundreds 00:00 Tools
01 The Search and Little Else 00:00 Tools
04 Guide to an Escape 00:00 Tools
Snow on Snow 00:00 Tools
01 Guide to an Escape 00:00 Tools
Guide to an Escape (Official Video) 00:00 Tools
U.F.O. - TV Noir Version 00:00 Tools
Halfway Blind (Night Plane Remix) 00:00 Tools
Say Now, Would You (Plaisir De France Remix) 00:00 Tools
10 Foreign Night 00:00 Tools
05 Dark Cloud Canopies 00:00 Tools
Halfway Blind (Side A) 00:00 Tools
02 Halfway Blind 00:00 Tools
UFO 06.25 00:00 Tools
Tell Me When You Go ("We're Italian") 00:00 Tools
Set Out to Discover (Lambert Rework) 00:00 Tools
Well Go On Alright 00:00 Tools
01 Changed My Grip 00:00 Tools
12 Every Little Step 00:00 Tools
Rue Royale - Halfway Blind 00:00 Tools
06 Even in the Darkness 00:00 Tools
02 Snow on Snow (The Bleak Midwinter) 00:00 Tools
Say Now Would You (Side B) 00:00 Tools
Blame /// Berlin Sessions #13 00:00 Tools
02 These Long Roads 00:00 Tools
10 confidence in gravity 00:00 Tools
Pull Me a String 00:00 Tools
01 Halfway Blind (Side A) 00:00 Tools
Rue Royale - Flightline 00:00 Tools
03 Lunacy 00:00 Tools
03 Flightline 00:00 Tools
02 Set Out To Discover 00:00 Tools
Blame - Live Groningen NL 2010 00:00 Tools
Fighter (Hundreds Cover) 00:00 Tools
Blame - Live Amsterdam NL 2009 00:00 Tools
Guide to an Escape (Acoustic Version) 00:00 Tools
Brought Up Somehwere Else 00:00 Tools
Guide to an Escape (Hundreds Version) 00:00 Tools
Say Now, Would You? 00:00 Tools
01 Parachutes and Lifeboats 00:00 Tools
05 Blame 00:00 Tools
09 We'll Go on Alright 00:00 Tools
Rue Royale - Blame 00:00 Tools
04 Get Me Standing 00:00 Tools
04 Pull Me Like A String 00:00 Tools
Rue Royale - Crater 00:00 Tools
UFO - Live Chicago 2009 00:00 Tools
Pull Me Like A String (official music video) 00:00 Tools
Stars - Live Martyrs Chicago 2009 00:00 Tools
Even In The Darkness (Edit) 00:00 Tools
Rue Royale - We'll Go on Alright 00:00 Tools
Live Eurosonic Session Groningen Jan 2010 00:00 Tools
Cren in the darkness 00:00 Tools
11 The Search And Little Else 00:00 Tools
Tell Me When You Go - Live Chicago 2009 00:00 Tools
03 Tiny Parcels 00:00 Tools
Rue Royale - Get Me Standing 00:00 Tools
Say Now, Would You? (Plaisir de France Remix) 00:00 Tools
Blame (Amsterdam Acoustics) 00:00 Tools
Rue Royale - These Long Roads 00:00 Tools
On 'n On 00:00 Tools
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These Long Roads - Live Germany 2008 00:00 Tools
Lunacy - Live Chicago 2009 00:00 Tools
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Having clocked up 100,000 miles on the road, Rue Royale are temporarily putting down roots to record their eagerly anticipated third album. The driven duo have ushered numerous tour vehicles into retirement since beginning their global adventure. Three years after they married, in 2006 Ruth and Brookln Dekker started making music together in their then home city of Chicago, inspired by the likes of Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Grandaddy, John Martyn, Jose Gonzalez and Elbow. The Anglo-American outfit earned their stripes on the Chicago music scene before selling most of their belongings and boarding a plane for Europe, armed with their instruments and self-titled 2008 debut LP, for their first out-of-town tour. The road quickly became Rue Royale’s way of life – with chips and dents in their tour vans’ bodywork testament to over 600 shows in 15 countries. Meanwhile, without the backing of a manager and (until recently) a label, between tours the couple rustled up a cottage industry at their new home in Nottingham. Together they printed, snipped, sewed and stuffed over 9,000 Rue Royale CDs, including 500 pre-orders for their second album ‘Guide To An Escape’ which they issued independently in 2011. Fans also warmed to the hand-made Rue Royale knitted goods (hot water bottle cover anyone?), bags and clothes that graced their merch stalls. ‘Guide To An Escape’ was picked up by Sinnbus who officially released it in March 2012. It retained the acoustic duo’s hushed, evocative melodies but was richer in sound and wider in scope, recorded at home following experimental sessions with producer Paul Pilot (who mixed the record) in London. The album featured the single “Halfway Blind” which got repeat plays on BBC 6Music by the likes of Gideon Coe when released as a limited edition seven inch. Always on the move, the outfit collaborated again last year with Paul Pilot in pan-European project Guidebooks, stitching together organic electronica and classic free-spirited songwriting. In November 2012, Rue Royale fans were treated to a very limited edition split cassette single, “Try As They Might”, with Dutch songwriter and friend Kim Janssen. And now to album number three – which is set to see the pair press pause on home recording and enter a bigger studio set-up for the first time. “We’ve written a lot over the past year and it’s exciting!” Brookln enthuses. “The new songs feel fresh and lively. We’ve been working much more intuitively and have a lot of confidence in this batch of tunes. Our releases so far have been home recordings which have been great fun. But we want to step up the quality and do real justice to our new material.” To realize their ambitions, Rue Royale are encouraging fans to help fund the new record through the successful Kickstarter model, with a number of pre-order options. “We want to make the best album we can but are relying on the support of our loyal fans. It feels like a risk but it’s also exciting, and humbling, that people who like our music can play a big part in helping us create it,” says Brookln. Whichever new direction the album takes, you can count on the fact that the journey will continue for Rue Royale, who are fitting in a UK tour in January/February before hitting the studio. That’s 101,946 miles and counting…. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.