Premiere: The Roseline’s ‘Aloneness’ showcases a more raucous side of the band

The Roseline. // Photo by Fally Afani

“Aloneness” is the lead single off The Roseline’s forthcoming album, Keystone of the Heart, which drops February 2 of next year.

Featuring the lineup of Colin Halliburton on lead vocals and acoustic guitar, Bradley McKellip on electric guitar, Colin Jones on bass, Jim Piller on drums, and Heidi Gluck on keys and background vocals, the song might be a little more energetic than one usually expects from the long-running Lawrence act. As a matter of fact, when we ran into Halliburton a month or so ago at the Replay Lounge, we basically begged him to let us premiere it when we heard the premise.

“‘Aloneness’ is my attempt at a bouncy, half-time, ’70s country rocker,” explains Halliburton. “I was channeling Prine, and I even offered a little lyrical wink in his direction in the final chorus. I also told our guitarist to go bananas on the Waylon-esque phaser effect.”

Lyrically, Halliburton continues, it addresses “the very real human desire and necessity to seek solitude (in moderation) as a means to recharge the spirit. It’s literally three chords and the truth, all the while clocking in at under three minutes. Punk to the bone, hehe.”