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The Black Room are brilliant! Although they stick to Rijeka's rock heritage, their musical tradition falls into the background due to the perfect combination of pleasant melodies and completely mastered playing skills. However, The Black Room has something special – its own unique sound dominated by a rather elegiac guitar. The Motel Monaco album was digitally released at the beginning of April. Although the authors of all the music, lyrics and arrangements are Ivan Ritoš, Leo Ventin, Kruna Kukuljan and Jakov Katalinić, there was a change in the band's line-up where Kukuljana was replaced by Ani Šešet on the bass guitar.

Whether it's songs like "Motel Monaco" or "Lawless Boulevard", this team brought vitality to new artists with their music and showed the extraordinary potential that The Black Room can become an important rock name in the coming years.

Plunging into the intricacies of longing, uncertainty, apprehension and helplessness, a clean and convincing musical manuscript comes as a contrast to the lyrics. "Wasted Youth" boasts an opening bass groove before full-blooded rhythms with a dance perspective, "Ride" is both elegant and energizing, and "Neon Love" is demanding because of the synths in the foreground.

The team from The Black Room has a strong sense of melody and a natural understanding of rhythm, and Jakov Katalinić's vocals, which seem to resemble Brian Molko from Placebo in color, come as a kind of recognition symbol for the further work of this band. The instrumental diversity of the songs speaks of their interpretive range, but the concluding "Weeks In Oblivion" has a rather compositionally balanced melody where the phrasing leaves a feeling as if it refrains from a completely objective presentation.