The Minneapolis based (and, for frontman Kyle, Belfast born) band Romantica blends so many sounds as to almost defy genre. Part pop, part folk, and part R&B, their debut album, "It's Your Weakness That I Want" has something for every taste.
Ben Kyle
-- guitar, vocals
Luke Jacobs
-- bassist, multi-instrumentalist
Mark Hedlund
-- percussionist
ABOUT THE BAND - Born and bred in war-torn Belfast, Northern Ireland, it's probably not so surprising that (writer/frontman) Ben Kyle's sweet and airy pop tunes retain a poignant sense of seriousness. Romantica manage to deliver an understated heart-to-heart in an envelope of melodic charm and sarcastic wit: too smart to be sentimental, too sweet to be taken too seriously. Wilco, Ryan Adams, Nick Drake, Damien Rice, Elvis Costello and The Replacements have all been used to describe their sound, and yet Luke Jacobs (bassist/multi-instrumentalist) calls Honey, a single on their recently released debut album "It's Your Weakness That I Want," an R&B track. "Those bass lines are gonna get somebody laid," he claims. City Pages likened Romantica to "Americana [that's] something more than the sound of the States," and PULSE of the Twin Cities called them "The Wallflowers for the new millennium." Romantica's diversity is musical as well as thematic. The ten songs on the album traverse the territory of numerous genres, from pop to folk to alt-country to R&B to rock 'n roll, all the while retaining a charming accessibility. This crossover appeal may be why PULSE predicts that the band is "...destined to find a large audience." Jacobs and Kyle met in college and teamed up shortly thereafter percussionist Mark Hedlund, a veteran of the Twin Cities Music scene. Since the release of their debut album, Romantica have had the pleasure of the frequent membership of violinist and "string queen" Jessy Greene (Wilco, Jayhawks, Minus 5), who performed on the record. As of print, Romantica have sat comfortably in the CMJ Top 200 for over two months and received frequent airplay on the Twin Cities FM mega-stations KQRS and Cities 97.
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