On their new single "Town Of Tomorrow", the Illinois band Rosetta West provides yet another example of their skill for bending a familiar genre and propelling it into weird, exhilarating new territories. As purveyors of a fist-pumping sensibility, steeped in blues rock tinged with psychedelia, world folk textures, and lyrics possessing a mystical aura, Rosetta West are legendary underground figures, known for persistently following their own authentic path to a true DIY career. This new track only adds to the fire of their legend.
Taken from their latest album "God Of the Dead," "Town Of Tomorrow" is as much an inkling of the future as it is an alternative vision of the past. It is a hard-driving blues rock number driven by blinding slide guitar work and steeped in futuristic themes. The opening riff is an evocative pull into an atmospheric space that feels both timeless and otherworldly, and that's precisely the kind of duality Rosetta West has always seemed to embrace.
The crescendo in the track is by far most noticeable at the end of the solo. Here, the band is all its searing power and precision, unspooling a moment that could scorch the room around it. Joseph Demagore's raw vocals and blazing guitar work fuel the soul of the tune, and his harmonica adds that blues bite. Joined by Mike Weaver's booming drums and Orpheus Jones's solid, anchoring bass, the sound is tight but loose, the performance teetering on the edge of collapse, and all that immediacy is positively bursting with life.
"Town Of Tomorrow" is a further step in Rosetta West's commitment to staying uncompromising music that doesn't just entertain but challenges, questions, and expands you. Still an underground phenomenon, the music of Rosetta West travels across borders and generations. These releases, whether on Spotify, Bandcamp, or YouTube, whisper about in more unpredictable realms, conveying a sense of discovery as if each track were an artifact in need of excavation. Rosetta West has made a portal with "Town Of Tomorrow," one that draws us forward and reminds us of the primal base of blues rock. It's fearless, it's brutal, and it's unputdownable.
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Reviewed by LyricalOdyssey Music
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August 28, 2025
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