Scott Walker, Ennio Morricone, Broadcast, Califone, Talking Heads, Talk Talk, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Robert Wyatt, Alice Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Angelo Badalamenti/David Lynch, George Delerue, Haruki Murakami, East River Pipe, Roy Orbison, Vic Chesnutt, Leonard Cohen, Otis Redding, Arto Lindsay, Gillian Welch, Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield, Douglas Sirk, Smog, Joy Division, The Cure, New Order, The Replacements, The Smiths, Joe Jackson, Echo & the Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins, early OMD, Magnetic Fields, Bola, Boards of Canada, Fennesz, Gavin Bryars, Sun Ra, Yo La Tengo, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Ween, The Rhombus and many other art/music-making friends...
Sounds Like
"lush, subtly textured mini-symphonies of pop abandon"
-Jennifer Kelly, PopMatters
Record Label
Plug Research/Shrug Records/Fresh Produce Records/
Roommate started out as a solo recording project of Kent Lambert. He recorded the EP Celebs in his Brooklyn NY apartment and self-released it in late 2001. Celebs landed in web journal Uzine's Top 20 releases of 2002 after being hailed as "one of the most promising debuts of recent years". The EP's centerpiece, a tribute (of sorts) to River Phoenix called "RP (forget the metaphors)" was played regularly on Studio Brussel's Duyster radio program in Belgium, and subsequently selected for the "Duyster.Classics" compilation alongside tracks by Low, Cat Power, Tortoise, Sparklehorse, and more.
found out my roommate got the album today from ol' Tim, good good stuff. Thank you to both roommates.. i will get my own though some roommates just can't be forever, or at least use there stuff forever. thanks again, seanTuff
The new album finally showed up in the mail yesterday. Holy shit mang! Very impressive, (as always). The cover of "Night" made my brain melt.
I caught a Chicago based act called Sing Sing at a party last week. They were okay, but their frontman, JOHN BELLOWS gave me one of his solo discs. This shit is really amazing! He has seen you play live before. If you happen to come across this dude's stuff you should check it out. I think you'd really dig it.
Thanks for the amazing new album. Hope all is well.
4.26.08 Patronaat: Mikrofisch (GER/UK) + The USA 4.28.08 OCCII: TV BUDDHAS (ISR) 5.07.08 Studio-K: ENVELOPES (SWE) 5.15.08 Bitterzoet: HEALTH (USA), ADEPT and EVA BRAUN 5.22. 08 DB’S: INTELLIGENCE (In the red, USA)
