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Debut EP, ‘Blue Harvest’ out!

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Hi,

We are Rogue Two, and we make sounds for the music and pop culture-obsessed Gen Xer indie rock fan. 

We are two multi-instrumentalist musical geeks and friends in time and space, Michael Kentish (UK) and David Asztalos (HU), who played together in a number of bands in Budapest, Hungary for over 15 years.

Our debut EP, ‘Blue Harvest’ features a raw and energetic sound, beautiful, layered vocals and songs that capture coming-of-age topics fitted with several musical and lyrical nods.

Songs

Additional album performances by Pablo Campos: keyboards and FX on A Geek’s Dream/Amazing/Birds Start to Sing ● keyboards on Buckley FC ● kalimba on Lies ▣ Recorded by Michael Kentish and David Asztalos in the United Kingdom and Hungary ● Additional recordings at Echo Studios, Budapest, Hungary by Eszter Polyák ● Mixed and produced by Pabloslam ● Published by Speegra Limited ▣ Cover art by David Asztalos and Pablo Campos ▣ ℗ 2022 Rogue Two

Feel Like Home

Music by David Asztalos and Michael Kentish ● Lyrics by David Asztalos ● Performed by: David Asztalos – drums, bass guitar,  electric guitars, keyboards ● Michael Kentish – vocals

Roll into the sun
Chase the golden wind
Summer smiles at the corner
Of every nameless street
Silhouettes fading slowly
In the shining light
A cloud of unsolved secrets
Linger in the sky

I wish I could go again
Where all the places feel like home
Though I don’t remember well
All the places feel like home

Endless time, there’s no one
Waiting for you now
Dream the world, a word would
Break the spell somehow
The shadows paint the shapes
Of yesterday
Reflections of a face
Turning away

I wish I could go again
Where all the places feel like home
Though I don’t remember well
All the places feel like home

If only I could take you where
All the places feel like home
And I know we would find it there
Where all the places feel like home

Buckley F.C.

Music by Michael Kentish and David Asztalos ● Lyrics by Michael Kentish ● Performed by: David Asztalos – drums ● Michael Kentish – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, vocals

The bubble that you have
Started to live in
It isn’t real
You need something real

When you have finally found
Your island of silence
It’s peculiar ways
Each day is the same

Don’t wait around too long
Don’t wait around too long

This warm isolation is
So addictive, restrictive
Could ask for help
I don’t like asking for help

Don’t wait around too long
Don’t wait around too long

A Geek's Dream

Music by Michael Kentish and David Asztalos ● Lyrics by Michael Kentish and David Asztalos ● Performed by: David Asztalos – drums ●Michael Kentish – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, vocals

She travels to far off lands
Wearing t-shirts of obscure bands
She’s a geek’s dream
She creates throughout the day
She mixes then fades away
She’s a geek’s dream

With her skills, computers are hacked
Quotes lines from Empire Strikes Back

Always where she belongs
Wears cosplay at Comic Cons
She’s a geek’s dream
She’s like a unicorn
A tractor beam in the horn
She’s a geek’s dream

With her skills, computers are hacked
Quotes lines from Empire Strikes Back

Pretend to understand
But she’s technical, it’s out of hand
Pretend to understand

You tried to play it cool
When she beat you at 9-ball pool
She’s a geek’s dream
8-bit loops, augmented thirds
Go home, look up her words
She’s a geek’s dream

With her skills, computers are hacked
Quotes lines from Empire Strikes Back

Pretend to understand
But she’s technical, it’s out of hand
Pretend to understand

Lies

Music by David Asztalos and Michael Kentish ● Lyrics by David Asztalos ● Performed by: David Asztalos – drums, percussion, bass guitar, electric guitars, keyboards ● Michael Kentish – vocals

Whatever makes you keep
Wanting to slide on the downward spiral
Tell me how it feels
To start all over again
However hard you pretend that
You can’t face all my smiles

All of the well-worked calculations
That you produced for years
Just to be able to
Quantify your fails
It’s time to put some faith
In the sound you always got

So when I come by
Stop getting high
On the words you crave to hear

Looked for the smell of a summer day
In a tea of fresh cut grass
And those neon sunsets
You wanted forever to last
But you said goodbye to the dream
And I still wonder why

Filled your world with the facts
And the fears of a life that no one lives
In a house with no walls
And surrounded by shadowless trees
It’s time you stepped out into the sun

So when I come by
Stop getting high
On the words you crave to hear

Amazing

Music by Michael Kentish ● Lyrics by Michael Kentish ● Performed by: David Asztalos – drums ● Michael Kentish – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, vocals

I post with irreversible effect
CAPS LOCK PUTS A STOP ON COMMON SENSE!!!

Nothing’s amazing anymore
Everyone has seen it all before
And we’re just not impressed at all
Our review will be your downfall

I’ll loudly say whatever’s on my mind
People get offended all the time

Nothing’s amazing anymore
Everyone has seen it all before
And we’re just not impressed at all
Our review will be your downfall

Replica

Music by David Asztalos and Michael Kentish ● Lyrics by David Asztalos and Michael Kentish ● Performed by: David Asztalos – drums, percussion, bass guitar, electric guitars, keyboards ● Michael Kentish – vocals

Fading away into the past
Plans and scenes from a stranger’s dreams
Are lying around on the floor
Dark rain, long cold sleepless nights
Neon signs of your lurid lies
Drive me to the edge
Take me to the bottom line

Making waves, changing lanes
Walking miles in vain
All the years feel like tears
In the morning rain

Replica town, though the streets
Have changed their name
They still remained the same
Replica town, with your empty face
Just another chance to waste

Scrolling screens of memories
Headlights of the chasing cars
Are dying dreams on the wall
Answer to the question never asked
Weigh me down, corrode my mind
Take me to the edge
Drive me to the border line

Making waves, changing lanes
Walking miles in vain
All the years feel like tears
In the morning rain

Replica town, though the streets
Have changed their name
They still remained the same
Replica town, with your empty face
Just another chance to waste

Birds Start to Sing

Music by Michael Kentish and David Asztalos ● Lyrics by Michael Kentish and David Asztalos ● Performed by: David Asztalos – drums, keyboards, bass ● Michael Kentish – vocals

Mind racing frantically
You battle with sleep
Dreams, they will have to wait
Problems to solve but then
Nothing more will be done today

Dawn light creeps through the blinds
Birds start to sing
A cat walks across the bed
Problems to solve but then
Nothing more will be done today

Lazy days with no purpose
Just dullness and bruises to avoid
Everything should be alright
Don’t fight, you can’t take flight
Why don’t we enjoy the void?

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