Rainbow Kitten Surprise (RKS) debuted their full-length album “HOW TO: FRIEND, LOVE, FREEFALL” in 2018, including the tune “It’s Called: Freefall,” which got traction on TikTok and generated a brand-new audience for the band. After this newly found appeal, RKS appeared to lay low (in regards to releases!) for an amount of time, putting out an album of live music and a single (“Work Out”) in 2022. Honestly, I get it — they’ve been hectic, presently on trip till Nov. 2023. Plus, their prima donna came out as trans a couple of days prior to “Work Out” came out. If anybody should have a break, it’s a trans female attempting to figure herself out. However, almost precisely a year after that single, RKS brought out a brand-new single, “Drop Stop Roll.” This has actually been a tune they’ve been playing live for the previous year, however I unfortunately haven’t been to a performance in over a year so this tune might too have actually been brand-new to me.
With psychedelic twists, the band’s guitar and achingly stunning vocals have actually a relaxed yet engaging feel, with callbacks to renowned artists and tunes such as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, and “Roxanne” by The Police. “Drop Stop Roll” has an easy chorus that provides itself well to live efficiencies — an audience likes an opportunity for engagement. However, as much as I have actually usually taken pleasure in RKS in the past, I don’t understand if I can state that I like this tune. Don’t get me incorrect, it isn’t a bad tune! It simply isn’t something especially remarkable.
It seems like a tune that would play because scene of a coming-of-age film where the primary lead character puts her earbuds in and leans her head versus the bus window. Or, now that I consider it, like a tune that would have been included in the soundtrack for “Life is Strange.” And I don’t believe that’s a negative — not every tune requires to be a marvelously initial and remarkable work. We require music that can act as a cooldown throughout live music sets or as the background of a computer game. This single doesn’t diminish RKS’s discography, however rather serves to highlight the remainder of the band’s work, which has worth in and of itself.
