Roberts & Lord
Eponymous
A supercombo team-up between Simon Lord (ex Simian) and Rafter Roberts, the Roberts & Lord duo present their Asthmatic Kitty debut, Eponymous. Roberts’ rough and grimy (yet complexly arranged) analog backing tracks paired with Lord’s clean, digitally-recorded vocals, gives these songs a tricky kind of depth that is immediately engaging.
This effortless juxtaposition reigns throughout these 35 some-odd minutes. The album begins with “Mosquito,” a perfect example and touchstone of Roberts’ loud, garage rocky, blown-outness paired with structure well-thought-out (but never lingered upon). Simon’s lyrics tell the story of a man’s love for a mosquito, his vocals backed by a crunchy oil-drum thunk of beats (a theme of this record.) Simon’s lyric writing on “Mosquito" sets the tone for what's to come and the tone is fun.
Influenced by verse poets like Ivor Cutler and Edward Lear, Lord gives us a simple, light-hearted return to innocence, a goodly love for good love, the capital F feel-goodness compressed into a chorus, the sweaty exuberance of a solid dance party with all your friends around you.
Tracklist
1. mosquito - 3:27
2. wild berries - 2:15
3 bottom of the bottle - 3:21
4. windmill - 3:08
5. oblique - 2:59
6. knots - 3:50
7. menuhin - 1:32
8. purple doves - 2:54
9. we rise, we fall - 3:11
10. interior demon - 4:17
11. spem - 1:49
12. the same love - 2:35
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