ARTiST: Royal Treatment Plant
TiTLE: Hope Is Not Enough
LABEL: Universal
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 38:49 min
SiZE: 53,4 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: May-15-2009
RELEASE DATE: May-15-2009
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Hope Is Not Enough 04:10
02. Half As Much 04:06
03. Undercurrent 03:34
04. Plastic Sparkles 04:01
05. All That's Left 04:10
06. Get Played 03:31
07. Hearts And Minds 04:22
08. Crack Whore 03:33
09. You Don't Need Me 03:15
10. Pricey 04:07
Release Notes:
ôBorn in Australia, grew up in Papua New Guinea.ö
Paula Steel reels off her biography in clipped,
damaged tones. ôMy mum and dad were missionaries for
the Seventh Day Adventist Church. I just remember
running around with hardly any clothes on, amazing
beaches and a few killer snakes. WeÆd go in the back
of trucks up to the highlands, converting people to
Seventh Day Adventism."
From preaching holy law to the farm-folk of New
Guinea to dragging the uninitiated to worship at the
altar of melodic punk as singer in Royal Treatment
Plant, PP as she is known to her band-mates, has
trodden an unconventional path to rock
enlightenment. In fact, it was only when she escaped
the church at eighteen after God was rather vague in
his selection of a husband for her, that PP was
exposed to the unholy trinity of sex, drugs and
rockÆnÆroll in that demonic circle of subsidized
lager and rugby soc depravity they call the
University system.
As the gigs got more riotous and the demo sessions
got more frequent, Royal Treatment PlantÆs modus
operandi developed: the sharp, serrated guitar bite
and cherubic coos of Metric or Yeah Yeah YeahÆs
laced with scathing socio-personal lyrics like acid
on the soul.
2008 saw the band gaining plays on US taste-making
rock station KROQ, nods of approval from peers like
The Automatic and culminated in the release of their
debut album, Hope Is Not Enough in the UK to massive
critical acclaim, underlined by their nomination for
a ôdebut album of the yearö award by key UK indie
station XFM, alongside acts like the Ting Tings and
Lightspeed Champion. Not bad for a band that DIY
released the album and shot all of their own videos
and artwork themselves.
With Universal Australia picking up the UK album for
release in 2009, PP and her band of merry men have
come full circle. Paula Steel feels she is coming
home ôitÆs really very exciting for me personally to
have our album coming out on my home turf. i just
hope people enjoy it as much as they seem to have
done in the UKö.