Less than a week after Brooklyn garage-punks THICK unveiled their first new single as a duo, the band’s former drummer Shari Page is already announcing her new solo venture Roon with a debut single on which she sings and plays all the instruments. “Sometimes” is hardly removed from THICK’s familiar power-pop charm and its softened punk edges, while Page’s solo endeavor harkens back to the band’s lo-fi beginnings prior to inking a deal with Epitaph.
“‘Sometimes’ started as an instrumental track of trial and errors,” Page shares of her new single. “After workshopping different ideas over and over, I made a MIDI intro by accident in Ableton. It ended up setting the tone for the whole song. I wanted to feel like I was getting up for school in the early 2000s and had my Good Charlotte patch on my backpack.”
While the opening riffs viscerally recall the early-’00s pop-punk scene, Page’s layered vocals are far from the sneeringly young-and-hopeless ballads belted out by Joel Madden. “I wanted to aim for simplicity and fun,” she shares. “I reached a point where I would rather have my music be ‘lame’ than try to make ‘cool kid’ music. I want to have the cheesy melodies, typical power chords and bass line, and fun drums.” With regard to the layered vocals, she adds: “I was reconnecting with a friend and I wanted to freestyle how I was feeling while doing a call and response. It’s really two interpretations back and forth. We can experience two different stories and emotions, but reconnect as one to want the same thing.”
Hear the results below, and learn more about Roon here.
