As I listen to Rook Monroe’s ‘Californialand’ I can’t help but hear a little bit of the 70s sound mixed in with early 90s with a modern day finish and my ears are saying yes to all of it.
Rook’s debut EP, Californialand, and its titular single, set the stage for the narrative arc of a rolling stone leaving a place he must leave in the past, to find a destination he can’t define. Californialand finds Rook at an intersection of confidence and confusion, as much concerned with leaving lies behind as with heading towards one.
”Every one of us has an idea of where we should go to find ourselves. Foregoing who we truly are, to keep the light on for whoever it is we’d prefer to become. We spend so much time wondering “what could be” that “what is” never feels good enough. Californialand represents that dream – the good, the bad, and the in between.”