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“My favorite records are mood-altering,” says Robbers on High Street frontman and songwriter Ben Trokan, “albums like the Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society, where you put it on and get so caught up in the songs that you immediately feel calm and happy. If we can have that kind of effect on people, that would be great.”
As with Ray Davies’ classic 1968 homage to English hamlet life, Grand Animals, the ambitious new album from New York City trio Robbers on High Street, is a wry, literate pop affair filled with oddball characters (a livery cab driver in “Keys to the Century,” a small-time crook in “Crown Victoria,” and a young boy who crashes his bike in “The Ramp”) whose stories are told through ..
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