Led by DAVE JACKSON, Liverpool post-punk pioneers THE ROOM present 'Nemesis' (from their latest album 'The Telling') with their trademark blend of progressive, alt-pop and sultry post-punk. As with the lead track 'The Teller', the MARK JORDAN-produced video is an audio-visual adventure for fans of 80s post-punk and folk-horror aesthetics alike.
With four JOHN PEEL sessions under their belt, The Room formed in 1979 and re-formed in 2023 to release the critically acclaimed 'Restless Fate' album (their first release in
38 years), their music as fresh and relevant as when they disbanded in 1985.
'Nemesis' is from the midpoint of 'The Telling' story. Rusalka, the shape-shifter, trapped in her aquatic human form, returns to wreak vengeance on the priest and those others who murdered her
lover. The village is haunted by evil dreams and deaths until they sacrifice their priest to the river. The 11-song album shares a continuous narrative over a bed of upbeat music, like an
aural folk-horror feature film. Set in a mythical 17th-century European forest, 'The Telling' follows a traveling storyteller, who mesmerizes an isolated village with macabre tales of wonder,
mystery and the supernatural - of shapeshifters, wolves, ravens and more.
