New Music Review - ‘ALIVE 4 U’ by Retro Valley
ALIVE 4 U is available now for your skeleton to dance to. Released on 31st May 2024. Cover art provided by Retro Valley.
The Waikato’s favourite musical lads, Retro Valley, are back on the scene with their latest song, ALIVE 4 U, which you can be forgiven if you initially thought it was released by a British or American punk band as they’ve got that sort of vibe with this hard hitter, which, in case you’re wondering, is highly complementary.
The slightly edgier version of Retro Valley is a treat for all ears - they take their alternative, indie pop rock style and put it through its paces with ALIVE 4 U. Strongly produced, well-written and cleverly captivating for all, Retro Valley light up this new power from within, making ALIVE 4 U potentially their most sublime and most mature sounding drop thus far.
The song is bought in toughly by the electrifying guitar; a perfect way to begin ALIVE 4 U. Accompanied by top class key work, outstanding drumming and impeccable vocalism, this is a song that will leave you with an upheld obsession for listening to this certified ten out of ten launch on a constant, unwavering loop.
Retro Valley have this way of almost transporting me back to being a teenager - if you’re even vaguely familiar with bands such as The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, 30 Seconds to Mars, among others from that type of era (and even a bit of YungBlud), this is the vibe that ALIVE 4 U gives off and it’s an absolute dream in the space of 3 and a half minutes to be on this planet to enjoy this one.
With ALIVE 4 U, it seems as though Retro Valley are finding themselves even more so musically, stripping back that pop element and ensuring that they are challenging themselves, exploring different elementals in terms of what their desired genres are to perform; there is nothing more endearing than hearing the maturity increase within artists over the years, especially Retro Valley whose track Who’s to Say I reviewed back in July 2021; evidently, they have evolved since then and ALIVE 4 U is heavy proof of this.
The making of ALIVE 4 U also looked like it was a lot of fun, with the lads doing a Come to the Studio video over on their Instagram (here) - so, it’s clear that this one is an extremely liberating track for them.
2024 is proving to be Retro Valley’s biggest year of all, so make sure that you’re keeping up to date with the band by following all of their social media links below -