Roosevelt Gets Bodies Moving and Hearts Racing on Polydans

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Polydans”,”mainEntityOfPage”:”https://www.spin.com/2022/02/roosevelt-polydans-interview/”,”datePublished”:”2022-02-28T10:45:23-05:00″,”dateModified”:”2022-02-28T11:31:34-05:00″,”description”:”Rising German artist Roosevelt captured attention last year with his ‘Polydans album.’ We interviewed Roosevelt ahead of his American tour”,”articleSection”:”All Eyes On”,”articleBody”:”If youu2019re longing for the kind of in-person connection that can only be found dancing with abandon in a room full of friends and strangers alike, Rooseveltu2019s got your soundtrack. Roosevelt is the moniker of 31-year-old German artist Marius Laube, who just released the deluxe edition of his third album, Polydans, which is a note-perfect antidote to pandemic-era gloom and doom, nodding to everything from the Bee Gees, yacht rock, French house and sleek u201880s pop over the course of 10 feel-good tracks. The ramped up version has eight additional alternate takes and the club bangers u201cAbout Uu201d and u201cOn My Mind.u201d u201cThe theme of the record, and why I called it u2018Polydans,u2019 is showing these different perspectives on dance music,u201d Lauber tells SPIN over Zoom from the East Williamsburg apartment he’s been renting for a few months. u201cThis time, I was a bit more aware of my influences and tried to write a few homages to these heroes of mine,u201d he says, citing Daft Punk, Air and u201880s Scottish band Fiction Factory, whose hit u201c(Feels Like) Heavenu201d he covers on the deluxe edition. Lauber played nearly every note of the music on Polydans himself in his Cologne-based studio, Tambourine Dreams, which he opened in 2019. There, he set up his gaggle of synths and instruments in a semi-circle and patched everything into his digital audio workstation, u201cso if I had an idea, it would take 10 seconds to record it.u201d The resulting album is tailor-made for festival settings, particularly on widescreen songs such as u201cEchoesu201d (wait for the killer transition at the 3:38 mark), u201cSignu201d and u201cSee You Again.u201d But it doesnu2019t skimp on more vibe-y detours such as the icy u201cForgetu201d and opener u201cEasy Way Out,u201d which boasts an organic, live-band feel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?vKdqlenFrH58 u201cIu2019m proud of having evolved a sonic world that people associate with me, that isnu2019t even defined by a certain track,u201d says Lauber, whose frequently smiling babyface and blue Etudes cap make him look even younger than he already is. u201cIu2019ve established a sound where I could do a 90 BPM track but also a 140 BPM track with completely different instrumentation.u201d Adapting those studio-centric album tracks into live versions that can be played by four humans with only two hands each was a challenge, but Lauber likens it to u201cbeing the best cover band of yourself. I think now Iu2019m way better at being the musical director of the band, so to speak. I see it as a fun thing to do. My focus is on producing the records, and now I have the confidence to figure it out for live performance.u201d Fans continue coming aboard for the ride, especially in the U.S., where Roosevelt played to his largest audiences on a late 2021 tour (including selling out L.A.u2019s 1,200-capacity Fonda Theatre). A spring European run gets underway on March 2 in Germany and will be followed by more U.S. dates later this summer. A new single is due out in late spring as well u2014 u201ca Roosevelt track with someone on it, who is a big hero of mine,u201d Lauber says, politely declining to reveal specifics. u201cI donu2019t usually have other people on my tracks. I think I like the albums to just be a personal statement without any features.u201d u201cI know thereu2019s a core of my fanbase that will keep being interested in what Iu2019m doing,u201d he continues. u201cTheyu2019re not expecting me to write a certain song again. With a lot of acts, it is that way. People have expectations because they have one or two big songs. 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