PRESS CLIPPINGS

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“Dr. Dre meets Dr. No …” - Rolling Stone magazine features the Bombay Royale in 10 New Artists You Need To Know

“… crams vintage Indian film music, 1960s surf tunes and blazing horns into a set of sly covers and wry originals.” - NPR review The Bombay Royale at GlobalFest

“The Bombay Royale makes an exhilarating return with their second album, The Island of Dr Electrico.” - ABC

“The Island of Dr. Electrico is wickedly delightful combination of disco, surf and funk.” - CBC music

“Epicness” - BBC6 Music

“Everything about Melbourne outfit The Bombay Royale screams over the top, too much guilty pleasure” - aurgasm.us

“You Me Bullets Love is … an off-kilter masterpiece …” - review in The Age (Melbourne, Australia)

“Bombay Royale is a retro band unlike any you’ve heard before …” - “Retro fitted”, interview in Mumbai Boss (Mumbai, India)

““You Me Bullets Love” sounds like the soundtrack to a long lost Bollywood-James Bond film …” - “Retro-Bollywood Music from Australia”, Interview on BBC-PRI “The World” (Boston, USA)

“It’s funky, surfy, brassy and definitely danceable …” - “Bollywood Journal: Q&A with The Bombay Royale”, Interview on India Real Time, Wall Street Journal (New York, USA)

“… ‘You Me Bullets Love’ is for the neophytes and enthusiasts alike, a combination of vibrant original material and vintage Hindi super hits …” - review in globetronica.org (London, UK)

“A mysterious masked band from Melbourne’s north is bringing all that’s dramatic, exotic and kitsch in vintage Indian cinema …” - “Masked music mayhem in North Melbourne”, Melbourne Leader (Melbourne, Australia)

“The music is brash, brassy, bodacious and often cacophonous but never boring …” - “You Me Bullets Love (The Bombay Royale)”, review in The Australian (Sydney, Australia)

“You Me Bullets Love, the debut from Melbourne outfit The Bombay Royale, is music so intense you can see it …” - review on themusic.com.au (Melbourne, Australia)

“… a bombastic hybrid that honours the musical theatrics of vintage Bollywood soundtracks …” - review in exclaim.ca (Toronto, Canada)

“… Bollywood surferbilly psychedelic disco porn funk …” - live review in vulture magazine (Melbourne, Australia)

“… reminiscent of a time when Shammi Kapoor’s frenzied head-shake was the hottest thing going …” - interview in platform magazine (Delhi, India)

“The Bombay Royale’s riotously colourful live show is a visual feast …” - “Musical masala”, The Age (Melbourne, Australia)

“… There’s a heavy retro vibe to the album that - bizarrely - makes it sound very fresh and bang-up-to-date! …” - review in worldmusic.co.uk (London, UK)

“… gaspingly authentic …” - interview and review in The Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia)

“You Me Bullets Love is a highly distinctive blend of cinematic funk, surf-rock, lounge, and soul, and one that combines old and new sounds seamlessly …” - review in RRR album of the week (Melbourne, Australia)

“Listening to “You Me Bullets Love” is like dropping acid, waking up in the Bollywood version of “Reservoir Dogs” …” - review in Sound Colour Vibration