Roommate to release album

ROOMMATE ALBUM “GUILTY RAINBOW” OUT MARCH 22ND VIA ANTEPHONIC

Roommate is a band from Chicago. Like a beloved version of their namesake, Roommate's music hangs heavy over any room it inhabits. Their deconstructed pop fables carry a weight that forces the listener in, and almost belies the light, intricate, electronic textures that fill out their songs.

Begun as a solo project of singer/songwriter Kent Lambert, Roommate’s first murmurings were heard in Lambert’s Brooklyn apartment circa 2000. Fleshing out his bedroom pop, Lambert relocated to Chicago and self-released the Celebs EP. Steady shows and a revolving cast of characters moved in and out of Roommate’s development, with 2005’s full-length “Songs the Animals Taught Us” solidifying the group’s growing synthesis into something more than the sum of its parts.

A wide release on the Plug Research label followed in the spring of 2006 and was supported with a European tour and a limited run around the United States.

Production on the “New Steam” EP began in late 2006 and the band recorded steadily through the completion of its second full-length album. “We Were Enchanted” was released in April 2008 on Plug Research and Shrug Records, supported with shows in the Netherlands and the American Midwest, and heralded as “a living, breathing work, one that develops and grows with the passage of time and with the listener” (All Music Guide).

Consistently attracting new believers to their particular gospel, Roommate is now gearing up for its most complete and forceful musical document yet. The band's third full-length, “Guilty Rainbow,” will be released in limited-edition LP form in March 2011 on the upstart Chicago imprint, Antephonic, the sister-label to Contraphonic, Inc. The band has settled into a quartet with Lambert at the lead, supported by Gillian Lisée (Fruit Bats, Califone), Luther Rochester (Low Skies), and Seth Vanek (Love Raid).

The instrumentation on “Guilty Rainbow” is at its most expressive and diverse as ever for Roommate – there are touches of vibraphone, autoharp, banjo, violin, Buchla Music Easel… even a Game Boy gets a workout here, as well as programmed synths and traditional rock instruments – but at its core, Roommate is able to collect all of their parts and translate them into something spectacularly their own. And now, yours too.

A free MP3 download of Roommate's single "Snow Globe" is here:
http://www.antephonic.com/mp3/SnowGlobe.mp3.

Website: www.roommatemusic.com