才華作曲家Tom Hobden (Noah and the Whale, Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling) 和 Eliot James (Kaiser Chiefs, Two Door Cinema Club and Bloc Party) 在Noah and the Whale首張專輯製作中相遇，在許多樂團貢獻多年後，兩位開始思考弦樂在流行樂中普遍缺席的角色，最後決定大膽地走出自己的路。於2017年合作發行了首張專輯《Roam》媲美新式浪漫作曲家 Samuel Barber, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten，更如現代、新古典音樂人Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and Max Richter等的作品。
《Tom Hobden & Eliot James Present: Roam》 is the stunning debut, collaborative LP from composers Tom Hobden (Noah and the Whale, Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling) and Eliot James (Kaiser Chiefs, Two Door Cinema Club and Bloc Party).
Frustrated by a lack of opportunities for and appreciation afforded to orchestral strings within the world of pop, Tom and Eliot saw no other option but to take things into their own hands. Ambitious from the outset, 《Roam》 reflects a shared love of late and neo–Romantic composers, and offers a knowing doff of the cap in the direction of the likes of Samuel Barber, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, as well as more modern, post classical composers such as Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and Max Richter.
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