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 A Love Letter To Electronic Music - Roosevelt’s ‘Polydans’ LP Out Now

 A Love Letter To Electronic Music - Roosevelt’s ‘Polydans’ LP Out Now

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“Always a student of dance music, it's clear that for whatever his next project is shaping up to be, Lauber has dug deep into the inner workings of dance music and studied the history vigorously.“ - PopMatters

 

Today, Roosevelt releases ‘Polydans’ (CITY SLANG and GRECO-ROMAN), an album engineered with the precision and expertise of a production master yet born from the creative passion of the genre’s biggest fan. Playing almost every instrument on the record, Roosevelt created ‘Polydans’ by swirling together the spirits of 80s synth, disco, analogue, Yacht rock and delirious dancefloor euphoria with amazing results. It is, quite simply, a feast for fans of the electronic genre, and a feat of expertly crafted pop that feels current yet nostalgic, club-ready yet heartachingly warm.

“It felt incredibly liberating to realize that I’m in a position now to go to the studio everyday and just do the music that feels right,” he says. “In this respect, ‘Polydans’ is my most personal album yet, as there hasn’t been any creative limitations – I just did what made me happy."

While cutting his teeth for years touring around the world, collaborating with acts like Washed Out, and remixing artists like Rhye, Glass Animals, Chvrches and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Roosevelt became one of the most buzzed-about new voices in electronic music. When it came time to work on his third album, Marius Lauber (aka Roosevelt) took the expertise he learned on the road and brought it back to his roots: a combination of playing multiple instruments in numerous bands during his adolescence followed by his time spent DJing at intimate clubs around London, Berlin, Lisbon and more. He craved the chance to recapture the energy and essence of those moments of sonic connection, where passion and excitement are woven into the intimate nuances of the genre, and the physical relationship between the DJ and those on the dancefloor.

The album has already earned praise for its early released tracks like “Sign” which Billboard said “balances 80s-inspired synth, disco, driving beats and cinematic textures into a musical amalgamation that simultaneously manages effervescence and heft,” and the follow-up “Echoes” which Stereogum described as a “strobe-lit and expansive cut that locks into an insistent groove and periodically explodes into bright colors.” Unafraid to show his self-aware creative vision, the track “Feels Right” was paired with a hilarious video poking fun at the machine behind music promotion that was debuted by Brooklyn Vegan who praised the song as “bouncy, blissful pop”, and “Strangers” which he released followed by an ingenious performance via SPIN where he tripled himself to perform the track as a literal one-man band. Most recently he dropped the sugar rush Valentine’s Day anthem “Lovers” which Earmilk said “captures that fleeting, effervescent feeling of falling blissfully in love.”

The video for focus track “See You Again,” which encapsulates the feeling of hopefulness, will be out March 10th. Stay tuned! 

 

‘Polydans’ Track Listing

“Easy Way Out”

“Strangers”

“Feels Right”

“Closer To My Heart”

“Montjuic”

“Forget”

“See You Again”

“Lovers”

“Echoes”

“Sign”

 

PRESS QUOTES

“Balances '80s-inspired synth, disco, driving beats and cinematic textures into a musical amalgamation that simultaneously manages effervescence and heft.” - Billboard 

“A strobe-lit and expansive cut that locks into an insistent groove and periodically explodes into bright colors.” - Stereogum

“...bouncy, blissful pop.” - Brooklyn Vegan

“The groovy space disco offering boasts an expansive soundscape that merges layered vocals with a brilliantly vibrant musicality that teases a clever duality that begs listeners to dance along in time with the insistent rhythm while Lauber’s lyricism leans into fond nostalgia.” - Earmilk

“..a space disco opus with layers of vocals revealing a wide narrative arc that simultaneously taps into euphoria and nostalgia.” - American Songwriter

 

For more information on Roosevelt, please contact Josh Page and Alena Joyiens at Shore Fire Media.