?️ THE RETURN OF THE VELVET VOICE
After a hiatus spent reflecting in the quiet corners of the lounge, Roger Crooner returns with his most intimate work to date: 'Red Wine Haze.' ?

Moving away from the pilling acrylic of the suburbs and into the cinematic mahogany of the 1970s, Roger delivers a masterclass in 'Mandolin Melancholy.' It’s a song for the early hours—for the watchers, the waiters, and those lost in the crimson-coloured days.

Put down the tray of chips, pick up the vintage, and let the mandolins do the weeping.

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This is how it came about:

It was a bit weird. When I eventually got back to bed (after the watch) I couldn't sleep and so when you can't sleep, you just think about anything and everything. I started wondering why I pick on Morrissey as a figure of fun. I've always been a bit indifferent to his music except for one short period when I was feeling a bit sorry for myself post-divorce. I hadn't touched any alcohol for about six months after that happened, and then I gradually got back into it with the old red wine favourite. I heard Moz's song "You Have Killed Me" and if you can listen to a song with conviction, then that was me. So I was in a red wine haze (not meaning that the wine was cloudy) but maybe we should call it a red wine daze? I was thinking maybe a song, "Red Wine Haze", "Red Wine Daze" or "Red Wine Days", and where did that take me? It took me to the place of the music in Andy Williams "Speak Softly Love", with its mandolins. That's probably due to the line "Wine-coloured days, warmed by the sun", mandolins need to be in it (although I just listened to the song on YouTube, and the mandolins don't feature in it as much as I'd thought, but they are in it – it says so on Google). So anyway, it is a melancholic song (even though I'm not feeling in the slightest bit melancholic now).