Roy

Pictures

Listen to, buy or share

Buy

Buy on Amazon Amazon Expand purchase options
  • Digital download
  • Amazon Amazon
  • 7digital 7digital
  • Juno Juno
  • iTunes iTunes
  • Physical media
  • Amazon Amazon Search
  • eBay eBay Search
  • 65,504
    scrobbles
  • 5,537
    listeners

Tags

Everyone’s tags

More tags

Biography

Reaching all the way back to Bob Dylan and the Band’s pioneering blend of mythic Americana and shaggy rock & roll, alongside more recent points of comparison like Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, and My Morning Jacket, Roy (a band, not a dude) blend spiky post-Pavement indie rock with folk and country influences for a sound that’s connected to the musical past but not beholden to it. For over a decade, singer and guitarist Brian Cook and drummer Dave Verellen were the mainstays of Botch, a Seattle post-hardcore act specializing in heavy riffs and showy time-signature shifts. Roy began as a side project in 2002, bringing Cook and Verellen together with singer and guitarist Ben Verellen and bassist Mike Cooper. Naming themselves after the small rural town near Tacoma, Roy debuted with 2003’s Tacomatose EP, followed by 2004’s Big City Sin and Small Town Redemption. Though Roy toured extensively behind their two records, the band went on a temporary hiatus while Cook and Ben Verellen turned their focus to another side project, the more Botch-like heavy math rockers These Arms Are Snakes. Roy reconvened in 2005 to write and record their second full-length album, Killed John Train, which was released by Lujo Records in the spring of 2006.
Read more… Edit bio

Featured tracks

Featured tracks

Top Albums

Listening Trend

5,537listeners all time
65,504scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:

Start scrobbling and track your listening history

Last.fm users scrobble the music they play in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio and over 200 other music players.

Create a Last.fm profile

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up.

  • coleccionista_7

    lo mejor de lo mejor fue la epoca espectacular musica muy buena recomenda

    18 Jul 2011 Reply

  • Mr_Sleepy

    I have lost all of my Roy collection with the exception of Killed John Train. Anyone know where I can pick up their music?

    7 Aug 2010 Reply

  • hillsblockview

    ROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYY

    10 Jun 2010 Reply

  • sidewinder03

    Roy! Long time no hear! White EP, Tacomatose, and Big City Sin... are really good. Didn't care for Killed John Train as much, but I'd still like to hear some new stuff from them.

    22 Feb 2010 Reply

  • sprdnglkwngs

    If anyone could send me anything by them, you would be my god! I'd send you anything in my library. I NEED Roy.

    23 Oct 2009 Reply

  • ninjablaster

    cant find any way to download this.

    18 May 2009 Reply

  • cockbeer

    I love this band soo fucking much. I need more!

    22 Feb 2009 Reply

  • biologica

    Brian Cook, I salute you. Thank you for your work.

    15 Oct 2008 Reply

  • JoeXJoe

    Great music.

    18 Oct 2007 Reply

  • Skukfas

    Botch \m/

    29 Sep 2007 Reply

Top Listeners