Blog: betterPropaganda

Jeremy from Fingertips scours the betterPropaganda archives, highlighting gems buried a few years back in our database. This week we bring you "This Life" from La Rocca . A comfy stomp of a piano riff leads, brain-buzzingly, into a song as brash as it is cheerful, as expansive as it is, also, introspective. This young Irish band will bring some inevitable early-U2 comparisons, both for the country of origin and for singer/guitartist Bjorn Baillie's semi-resemblance to a young Bono. But the comparison doesn't hold for long, to my ears. There's some deep-seated, [...]

• La Rocca - this life