Roomer

Roomer are sharing ‘Windows’, a dynamic dream-pop track that combines minimal music’s interlacing patterns with sudden eruptions of power chord catharsis. The track’s opaque lyrics (“you ask for purity / I have this melody”) float above guitar work that draws as much from Steve Reich’s phasing techniques as it does from My Bloody Valentine’s tremolo manipulations. Roomer’s hotly anticipated new album ‘Leaving It All To Chance’, is out on 4 April via Squama Recordings.

The band on their new single: “Windows is about waking up and finding clarity again. It’s about cleaning what’s blurred, letting in fresh air, and seeing things as they are—clear, simple, and bright. We spent a day at Tempelhofer Feld, washing windows and watching the light catch soap bubbles. The wind moved our hair, sun beams touched our lenses, leaving everything slightly hazy but still somehow perfect. It's nothing complicated, just us and the breeze, remembering how good it feels when things shine again.”

Roomer announced their forthcoming album ‘Leaving it all to Chance’ with the nearly-eponymous lead single ‘Chance’, which The Line of Best Fit described as “spectral in its dark and dreamy allure, the single is an evolving web of uncommon chord structures atop intentional slacker rock rhythms. Ronja cries out into this dreary and ethereal noise as a fuzzy electric guitar brings the single to its searing end with a burst of grungy electric feedback.”

With ‘Leaving It All to Chance’, Roomer don’t quite leave everything up to fate. The Berlin outfit’s debut album hums with guitar-driven heartbreak, pairing mind-splitting noise with seductive melodies. Capturing the gritty yet emotive energy of their live performances, the album welcomes in the occasional ear-candy, staying true to the raw physicality of a hazy club show all while sharpening its edges—crafted in true DIY spirit and released by Munich's Squama Recordings on 4 April.

Roomer is the meeting point of four distinct creative forces in the European music scene, united through long-standing friendships and years of collaboration across projects ranging from avant-garde free improv to ethereal folk and ambient electronica. Inevitably—if surprisingly late—the question arose: why not start a band? In their hands, the rock band format became a canvas for their many musical worlds to collide.

Ronja Schößler, a fixture in Berlin’s experimental singer-songwriter scene, pens compositions of crystalline vulnerability that cut through the band’s guitar architectures with diaristic directness. Ludwig Wandinger, polymath producer and visual artist—recently featured on Caterina Barbieri’s light-years label—injects his drumming with an energy grounded in sharp sound-design instincts. Minimalist composer and synthesist Luka Aron contributes electro-acoustic textures that shimmer with the weight of distant memories.