“Cologne-born Marius Lauber has been releasing tunes since 2013, but this self-titled effort is his debut full-length. Opener ‘Wait Up’ is Hot Chip in syrup, with hints of the big synth punchiness of Yeasayer’s latest record, while on ‘Night Moves’ the bpm cranks up, accompanied by some semi-euphoric sounding (but ultimately meaningless) vocals: “There’s no room to hide / The night moves on and on””
“Once tools used to create "futuristic" soundscapes, it's increasingly hard to separate synthesizer and drum machine sounds from the early 1980s. That's in no small part because of artists like M83, Skylar Spence and Roosevelt — the moniker of German songwriter/producer Marius Lauber — who keep using them to update and modernize the woozy, hazy hooks of that era by lacing them with saxophones, reve”
“Roosevelt's debut is a cocktail of disco, French touch, Ibiza house, yacht rock, and electropop that evokes some crowded Tiki-torch dancefloor lost on the Mediterranean coast.”
“Greco-Roman hotshot Roosevelt returns with a mixed bag for his first full-length”
