Rogue Wave

Emerson once wrote, “When it is darkest, men see the stars” and he might as well have been penning a poem for Rogue Wave. Last year was a rollercoaster ride for the foursome - drummer Pat Spurgeon had a kidney transplant, keyboardist Gram LeBron lost his father, singer Zach Rogue had a daughter and the band recruited a new bass player (Patrick Abernethy, formerly of Beulah). But instead of falling apart, they converted all their heartbreak, love, hurt, pain, elation and insight into a most affecting and beguiling record, Asleep At Heaven’s Gate.

Rogue Wave’s Brushfire Records debut, Asleep At Heaven’s Gate, is a proudly defiant album shot through with heartfelt self-examination and a wider commentary on the flawed world around us. “The entire record is about the internal joy that we’ve been feeling at being able to overcome so much in the last year and then looking around at the country we love, which is disintegrating before our eyes,” declares Zach Rogue. “I heard this guy on NPR talking about duality in relation to being with his mother when she died. Most people describe death as the most awful thing they could ever experience. But as he was watching the life leave her body, that instant was both the most horrifying moment in his life and the most beautiful, spiritual, and enlightening moment he ever had. Life is all about those dualities.”

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