Melbourne’s RVG return with their highly anticipated second album, ‘Feral’. Following their beloved 2017 debut ‘A Quality of Mercy’, RVG perform the tricky alchemy of combining rock’s urgency, punk’s anarchy, and pop’s empathy.
New single ‘Perfect Day’ is the next track from their new album out April 24th on Fire Records.
“It’s a song about trying to give someone the façade of it being a nice day even though things around them really aren’t good” Romy
Directed by Geoffrey O’Connor, the dreamlike and majestic music video sees the band in a snowstorm much like the turmoil at the centre of this song.
“Movies and TV shows set in the snow have always made me feel happy in a way I cannot quite describe, so filming RVG perform their song 500 times in the middle of a snowstorm was a magical experience. I’m forever indebted to these lovely people and their beautiful music for giving me an excuse to buy a snow machine. I don’t know when or why, but I’m sure I will need it again.” Geoff O’Conner
Recorded at Head Gap studios with producer Victor Van Vugt (PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Beth Orton), this is RVG’s first full-length release in three years and marks the beginning of a new era for the band.
‘Feral’ is a catharsis, a call to arms, and a forthright indictment of contemporary complacency. Throughout this album isolation is incited, but it never feels hopeless: these songs channel the raw energy of despair and frustration into melodies that often feel victorious, perhaps only because they so aptly supply a soundtrack to the end of days.
To Romy, RVG’s lead singer and lyricist, to feel feral is to feel outside of everything.