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Songs For The Spine is the sound of The Royston Club turning a breakthrough into a mission statement — urgent

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the latter looking back on the formative underground spaces of Grace’s youth

The tension within the band—clashes between members and disagreements with their producer over the album's direction—only added to the intensity and catharsis captured in the music

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