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Dear Rouge is touring in support of their debut album Black To Gold which features hit singles “I Heard I Had,” “Best Look Lately,” along with the title track “Black To Gold.” All three singles from this release have hit the Top 3 at Alternative and Modern Rock radio in Canada with momentum continuing to grow domestically and internationally for the band. The husband and wife duo lead by Drew and Danielle McTaggart tour will include a headlining show at New York City’s Piano’s and a performance at Milwaukee’s Summerfest music festival. All upcoming shows are listed below.
Dear Rouge’s debut album Black To Gold helmed by Drew McTaggart and producer/ engineer Ryan Worsley,) boasts an expansive sonic palette with punchy guitar hooks, uplifting synth layers, and the sincerely powerful vocal delivery of Danielle. The title track “Black To Gold” is an unabashedly 80’s influenced affair as Danielle’s vocals pierce through the uptight synth-drums to announce, “We came too far to be looking back”; summing up the organic beginnings of the duo and the stream of creativity that has kept them looking forward, excited of what is to come, rather than to the past.
USA TODAY proclaims, “More and more pop artists are drawing from ’80s influences, but none make a better case for the trend than this Vancouver duo, whose erupting synths and charged vocals here will surely become a summer-soundtrack staple.”
Noisey calls “Black To Gold”, “a gritty, razor-sharp synth-rock record full of arena-sized bangers, with glossed over, moody 80s-esque pop rollers and understated ballads peppered throughout.”
“It’s a beautiful thing when a highly anticipated album proves to be every bit as amazing as you hoped it would,” affirms Addicted Magazine
