Rocheman - Rocheman

Rocheman is a London stage music composer and sound designer. Five years in the making, his eponymous debut album careens a hazy path through post-punk, new-wave and electronica.

Rocheman's sound both fights and embraces the bedroom production aesthetic; this is neither entirely digital or analogue, clinical or DIY. Rather it is a multitude of alien textures, parallel world harmonies and "other voices" beckoning our baritone protagonist from off-stage. Theatrical references are apt as Rocheman finds inspiration in the stylised, uncompromising works of David Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The result is pop music with a weight of grandeur and orchestral ambition, all tempered with a homespun gauze.   
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With his staunch avant-pop outlook and sonorous baritone delivery, lines can also be drawn between Rocheman's work and that of Broadcast and Scott Walker. On album opening "Windmill", his shimmering fragility recalls Sufjan Stevens or Julia Holter. Later on, "Mottled" and "Old Sign" reveal a skittish psychedelia and capricious vocal lines reminiscent of Animal Collective or Grizzly Bear.

Rocheman is available now on beautiful marbled vinyl.​

PRODUCT DETAILS

Artist:  Rocheman
Label:  Veki Records
Condition:  New 
Genre:  Indie & Alternative
Format:  Vinyl LP
Cat Number:  NX09
Released:  1st December 2017