{"product_id":"rocheman-basin","title":"Rocheman - Basin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRocheman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eBasin\u003cbr\u003eThe Hotel\u003cbr\u003eUK, 2026\u003cbr\u003eLP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOW SHIPPING\u003c\/strong\u003e in pristine new jackets! Thanks for your patience while I got that sorted. Worth the wait!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigitally self-released in 2022, and now appearing on vinyl for the first time courtesy of The Hotel in an edition designed by Thomas Bush, \u003ci\u003eBasin \u003c\/i\u003eis a quiet masterpiece of late-night London sophisti-pop. Alternately recalling Scott Walker, The Blue Nile, and the beguiling, rain-damp adult contemporary moments on those early Jolly Discs records by Special Occasion and Never, Rocheman’s work doesn’t shy away from bold gestures or grand feelings. Indeed, it’s a tension between melodrama and quiet honesty that seems to animate the work. His chamber pop arrangements wear their taste and sophistication on their well-turned sleeves, but there’s inevitably a moment when the \u003ci\u003efabriqué \u003c\/i\u003edigital textures of the instruments glitch through, a flickering glimpse of the 21st-century surreality underwriting the confessional sincerity of these pensive tunes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2809268075\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rocheman5000.bandcamp.com\/album\/basin-lp\"\u003eBasin LP by Rocheman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the artist himself puts it:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethis album spanned a few years, bookended by my Dad’s passing and the birth of my child. a lot of it was made in our damp basement. the album went through a lot of concentrated periods of understanding what my Dad had left behind, how deep family karma goes, how it still shows up. through intimate relationships, the outside world, everything the mind tries to say. this project has often been a sense maker of a lot of confusing stuff. for some reason early on it became compelling to stick as much as possible to cheap MIDI sounds, to see if something arose from writing quite grandiose, occasionally melodramatic things, funnelled through faux instruments doing bad impressions of real ones. for some reason it matched the dichotomies that were coming up a lot in grieving my dad ~ empathy\/lack of resolution, real memories\/unreal selfprotecting stories, my own patterns of BS\/the quieter real self or soul. all still going on in some way. but making this was a very fulfilling way to transmute some of it and pass it on with love.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seasonal Work","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43935616073862,"sku":null,"price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/3874\/2150\/files\/Rochmean_-_Basin.jpg?v=1777221853","url":"https:\/\/seasonalworkrecords.com\/products\/rocheman-basin","provider":"Seasonal Work","version":"1.0","type":"link"}