Rom Antic turns choir, violin and rock-band bones into a full-hearted French release

Rom Antic’s 18 June Bandcamp release arrives with credits that immediately make the project feel communal: bass from Hélène Béraud, drums from Gabriel Delmas, violin from Gean Veiga, and a choir featuring Rose, Gargi, Marie-Gabrielle, Kim, Leeroy, Olivier, Matthieu, Ralph and Camille. That list alone gives the music a social architecture before the listener even gets to the songs. This is not a lone-bedroom dispatch. It sounds like a room full of voices, strings, rhythm and arrangement choices, captured and shaped by Mathieu Durif. The artist name Rom Antic already hints at romanticism with a wink, and the instrumentation suggests a place between alternative rock, chamber pop and group-voiced drama. Independent music often becomes most interesting when the credits reveal the village behind the feeling. Here, the village appear to have brought a violin and decided to sing.

Source: https://romanticartist.bandcamp.com/