Singles : Roosevelt : Small Hours
Singles : Roosevelt : Small Hours
Listen To Roosevelt : Small Hours
If we decided to spin an annual awards ceremony out of this column – and if we did we'd call it the Newbies – then today's act would be a hot contender for the gong for Best EP By a German Who Sounds Like a Displaced Los Angelino. Elliot by Cologne-based singer, songwriter and producer Marius Lauber, aka Roosevelt, features four tracks of such wan, washed-out techno and listless disco, it's like Balearica designed for Venice Beach. Lauber – recently the second most-worshipped human over at Hype Machine – is signed to Greco-Roman, the London label run by Alex Waldron, Dom Mentsh and Hot Chip's Joe Goddard, which helped break Disclosure and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (whom Roosevelt has supported on tour). So that augurs well. But even if it had been issued on a dingy imprint with zero credibility this music would still shine.
Roosevelt makes dance music for people who don't dance because they're too depressed. It's commercial but it cuts deep, like New Order in Ibiza. The title track, as has been pointed out, is also heavily reminiscent of Caribou's Odessa, with its liquid bassline and "beatific waves of cascading synths" (thank you, Pitchfork). The song has the celestial grooviness of AR Kane after they swapped feedback for funkiness on A Love from Outer Space, which is nice, because apart from the Guardian nobody really talks about AR Kane anymore. It has the haziness of shoegaze but the heavenly heartbeat of disco and house. Lauber's voice is from the school of vocalese founded by Bernard Sumner, and is as winsome and fey as you could wish. He's the ghost in his own machine-pop, haunting every note with a trail of deadened dedications to an ex-girlfriend.
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Listen To Roosevelt : Small Hours
If we decided to spin an annual awards ceremony out of this column – and if we did we'd call it the Newbies – then today's act would be a hot contender for the gong for Best EP By a German Who Sounds Like a Displaced Los Angelino. Elliot by Cologne-based singer, songwriter and producer Marius Lauber, aka Roosevelt, features four tracks of such wan, washed-out techno and listless disco, it's like Balearica designed for Venice Beach. Lauber – recently the second most-worshipped human over at Hype Machine – is signed to Greco-Roman, the London label run by Alex Waldron, Dom Mentsh and Hot Chip's Joe Goddard, which helped break Disclosure and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (whom Roosevelt has supported on tour). So that augurs well. But even if it had been issued on a dingy imprint with zero credibility this music would still shine.
Roosevelt makes dance music for people who don't dance because they're too depressed. It's commercial but it cuts deep, like New Order in Ibiza. The title track, as has been pointed out, is also heavily reminiscent of Caribou's Odessa, with its liquid bassline and "beatific waves of cascading synths" (thank you, Pitchfork). The song has the celestial grooviness of AR Kane after they swapped feedback for funkiness on A Love from Outer Space, which is nice, because apart from the Guardian nobody really talks about AR Kane anymore. It has the haziness of shoegaze but the heavenly heartbeat of disco and house. Lauber's voice is from the school of vocalese founded by Bernard Sumner, and is as winsome and fey as you could wish. He's the ghost in his own machine-pop, haunting every note with a trail of deadened dedications to an ex-girlfriend.
Contact Roosevelt
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Sources : Roosevelt Photo | Listen To Small Hours | Roosevelt Article
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