British singer/songwriter Michael Baker makes a contemporary begin (and dons a contemporary sound) as Roman Joon with “Name It What You Need,” an exhilarating, achingly pressing debut single that’s as seductive and sultry as it’s impassioned and unrelenting.
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“Name It What You Need” – Roman Joon
Farewell, Michael Baker, and hiya, Roman Joon!
With each ending comes a brand new starting, and the horizon appears particularly promising for my favourite Brighton-based singer/songwriter. A staple of Atwood’s pages for 5 years and counting, indie people artist Michael Baker has distinguished himself as a bridge between the intimately ethereal and softly cinematic, releasing 4 studio albums (and a litany of EPs) that evoke his personal humanity, whereas echoing bits of common heat and knowledge that resonate deep in our hearts.
Atwood Journal beforehand praised Baker’s sophomore album Salt as “a heartfelt reckoning stuffed with hanging vulnerability and intensely intimate, lovely songwriting,” and known as 2021’s third LP How Come You Sleep “a cathartic launch of rigidity and visceral self-reflection made with love, gentle, and hope within the midst of a pandemic.” Embracing area whereas bridging acoustic and electrical instrumentation and a comfortable rock / indie people aesthetic, Baker’s visceral music may (and may) be likened to such acclaimed artists as Sufjan Stevens, Gregory Alan Isakov, Blind Pilot, Dustin Tebbutt, Bear’s Den, and Aquilo.
However the instances, they’re a-changin’, and after making music beneath his personal title for practically a decade, Baker discovered himself prepared for a refresh. “I needed to start out contemporary, actually,” he explains. “Good to be on album one once more and simply give it a whack out into the business as a beginner.”
His new alter-ego, Roman Joon, comes with no baggage nor expectations; the sky’s the restrict for what this artist can and can do, beginning together with his spellbinding, dramatic, and achingly pressing debut single, “Name It What You Need.”
crawling up the partitions
by no means to be heard
i like you
there’s at all times a kind of
who’ll hate the best way you flirt
i like you
you possibly can name it what you need
name it what you need
’trigger every thing occurs
every thing occurs
“I’d had this monitor kicking round for some time, taking part in with totally different variations, however I stored coming again to the unique demo – there was one thing about it I simply couldn’t shake,” Baker tells Atwood Journal. “When it got here time to complete it for my debut album, I knew the guts of that demo needed to keep.”
“I introduced in Chris Matthewson, who I’ve additionally collaborated with on our ‘Bloody Vacationer’ undertaking, to play baritone guitar, and Marcus Hamblett added these pitch-bent trumpets that basically gave the monitor life. The digital glitches got here from experimenting with a Chase Bliss Temper pedal on the guitar, and the remainder is historical past. It’s acquired that late-night driving vibe, good for head-bopping, with the true energy mendacity in its rhythmic consistency.”
a window with a view
backyard avenue, go beneath
undergo the tavern beau
every thing you select
go beneath
you possibly can name it what you need
name it what you need
’trigger every thing occurs
every thing occurs
Seductive and sultry, impassioned and unrelenting, “Name It What You Need” is an exhilarating debut that ensures we’ll pay extra-special consideration to this ‘new’ artist from right here on out.
Together with his debut album I Suppose I’m Alright, Mighty Positive set to launch in 2025, Roman Joon is no doubt an artist to look at – one who, untethered to the previous, can go wherever and do something. Right here’s to creating a contemporary begin.
you possibly can name it what you need
name it what you need
’trigger every thing occurs
every thing occurs
you possibly can name it what you need
name it what you need
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