Charleston, S.C.
Fake Cousins Who Like to Party
www.theroyaltinfoil.com

This “garage-blues, rock, Americana, dumpster-pop, swamp-punk, drunken-gypsy sex” outfit out of The Holy City puts on a show with a “drastic ebb and flow – an undertow,” says Lily Slay (vocals, guitar, kazoo). Their brand of music can be “surprisingly brutal” and stands out with its “screaming guitar licks, gut-busting blues-diva vocals and crashing drums, but we’ll also sing you a love song so pretty, you’ll cry in front of your girlfriend.” The duo, rounded out by Lamont “Mackie” Boles (guitar, vocals), is inspired by love, lust, whisky, hilarity, mythology and their “own impending doom,” she says. The two met when Slay posted an ad on Craigslist to start an acoustic duo around 2009 – hotel gigs grew to house parties and then they went fully electric. The Royal Tinfoil cut their teeth on their 2012 debut Well Water Communion, revealing humor, drama, catchy lyrics and beautiful harmonies but “because of its lighthearted tone, it’s just scratching the surface,” Slay says. Their sophomore album, out this fall, will deliver a “similar subject matter, but explored in a much more honest and fully realized way.” Charleston will always be home, despite some crazy adventures on the road, for these self-described “fake cousins who like to party.”

This “garage-blues, rock, Americana, dumpster-pop, swamp-punk, drunken-gypsy sex” outfit out of The Holy City puts on a show with a “drastic ebb and flow – an undertow,” says Lily Slay (vocals, guitar, kazoo)…