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"Through his Roses Kings Castles project [Babyshambles] sticksman Adam Ficek shows an ear for melody that the likes of Belle & Sebastian would smash up a tea party for." -- NME Musician and DJ Adam Ficek is most commonly known to the general public for his day job as drummer in Babyshambles. As a member of the band fronted by Pete Doherty, Ficek has seen the best and worst of the music industry. What many people don't know is that he is a blistering artistic talent in his own right. Roses Kings Castles is the moniker under which Ficek performs and records his own unique catalogue of quixotic, chiming, and blissfully astute acoustic pop songs. Lost somewhere between Belle & Sebastian's pastoral warmth and the hallucinatory six-string invocations of Syd Barrett, a typical Roses Kings Castles track is buoyed by the finest elements of classic British songwriting--by turns wry, beautiful, and bizarre.