Rooftop Screamers delivered a melancholic rush of cosmic power pop euphoria with ‘Our Story’, featuring Royston Langdon

The melancholically euphoric rush of Rooftop Screamers’ Our Story could only have been fully realised through the quasi-cosmic harmonic timbre of Royston Langdon. The single lands as a spacy iteration of retro power pop, brushed with hues from the indie-pop palette that pull you into its kaleidoscopic colour. From the first moments, the track settles into a weightless atmosphere that feels oddly familiar, as though you’ve always belonged inside its sonic horizon. There’s a natural ease in the arrangement that delivers a scintillating aura around the brashier textures. Swaggering-with-nostalgia guitars strike the production like bell tolls, ringing through the mix to keep the emotional gravity intact while the melody floats skyward. The sensation lands somewhere between melancholic reflection and full-bodied elation. As a meditation on the bliss of recognising the one person who salves the existential ache, few artists have paid a more fitting ode to the sensation of longing being sated in the most absolute way possible. The way this is mirrored with the segue into psychedelic 60s pop before the track builds back up in a radio-ready rock opera-esque way that Rooftop Screamers triumphs with affirms that Mike Collins is one of the most accomplished songwriters out there. […]

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