The Daily Spin, May 3
Roosevelt | Roosevelt
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
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Album: Roosevelt (2016)
Artist: Roosevelt
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Roosevelt’s self-titled debut album is also an incredible journey into dance pop, somewhere on the spectrum between Satin Jackets and Goldroom. It’s electronica influenced by house, by yacht rock, by all manners of genre and instrument and school of thought. It’s varied, wonderful, and never anything but enchanting.
He’s particularly successful when he works towards nu-disco styles - the clear standout on the record is ‘Moving On’, whose funk is only bettered by the keyboard bridge two minutes in. It plods along at precisely the pace it’s clear it’s meant to go, ambling its way to a glorious build and then, afterwards, gently easing on home.
It’s almost trance-like, but the best thing I can say about this - and, really, his entire body of work - is that every time I put it on, there’s something in the back of my mind that has zero problem with spinning that record into infinity. High praise, indeed.
Rating: 9.2/10
Best Tracks: Moving On; Colours; Daytona
Worst Tracks: Wait Up