The road less travelled is a familiar place for Rue Royale- and they don’t mind giving others a lift along the way.

The soulful Anglo-American duowho visit Cardiff next week have thrown the doors wide open to help create their boldest, most romantic work to date.

The pair wanted fans involved from the outset and launched a campaign on pledge-site Kickstarter to finance the record. People put in everything from £4 to a mind-blowing £1,000 as Rue Royale exceeded their goal.

After notching up over 100,000 tour miles in just six years, Ruth and Brookln Dekker recorded ‘Remedies Ahead’ in March 2013.

The funding enabled Rue Royale to decamp to Bat Box studios in Lewes. They were joined by friend and collaborator/producer Paul Pilot (Duke Special, Beth Rowley, Athlete), and a tail-less squirrel who rattled around the rafters, for a fortnight’s music making.

Unlike their first two LPs – ‘Rue Royale’ (2008) and ‘Guide To An Escape’ (2011 and re-released by

Sinnbus in 2012) – the pair wrote most of the tracks on the road. “Almost every demo was recorded into my phone during sound checks,” Brookln recalls. “This meant the songs were birthed in big, spacious rooms rather than a bedroom. We took these bare bone demos into the studio with Paul and colored in some of the spaces.” This more confident approach allows Rue Royale to venture down new artistic avenues on ‘Remedies Ahead’

A cottage industry that’s already reached the farthest corners of Europe and the US, Rue Royale are breaking out – chasing the remedies ahead.

Rue Royale play Four bars in Cardiff on November 18 Visit seetickets.com for details.