The Tomorrow People have been running around town since 2009, headed up by Riley Geare and featuring bassist Erik Mimnaugh and Jordan Ruback tearing up the drum set. Geare often helps to lay down tracks for other locals such as Little Volcano and Trio Flux as a sound engineer and is also known to put on a Bowie review with his side project Queen Bitch. The bands now-on-vinyl EP, Rose City Rose, presents influences of Bowie, Queen, classic rock and metal particularly in Geare’s keyboarding and guitar notes that ladder along his vocal ballads. Rose lavishes raw, grease lightning style numbers in which Geare belts it out quite beautifully with his guys backing him up in anthem. At times it is heavy metal, at others rock opera. It is a roller coaster of understood track names. The dreamy 1960-70s soundscape of "Universe" makes one starry eyed with harmonies of oohs and aahs a-plenty, but this gives way to the startling wake-your-ass-up of whaling guitars, unstoppable tempo and utter destruction of "Eternity" only to simmer back down to a slow jam of longing with "Forever". It is fantastical, glittery ROCK. – Brandy Crowe
