Roommates.

Bring Back Cassettes! I like how everything old is new again.... First there was the resurgence of Vinyl... now with the popularity of Lo-fi, some people such as the Roommates are releasing cassette singles again. and I'm intrigued. But before we get into the actual cassette... lets talk about the band... Roommates is a side project of Ben Cook aka Young Governor aka Lil Bitey, who is a guitarist for Fucked Up and his roommate Mark Fosco who also played with Cook in another band... Marvelous Darlings.

So now that the roommates are actually The Roommates, they decide to record a 4 part series of cassettes that they will release on Scotch Tapes, perhaps one of the most awesome label names ever (although Secretly Canadian is still the best). The first of which is called Wi. I would say buy it, but it's already sold out... they only made 99 copies. But a new one is on the horizon, so be on the lookout for that.

The songs on Wi are "Back to the Sun / Girlfriend Swap". Its lo-fi power pop at its best... very ramones-ish but with 80s pop tendencies. I especially like Girlfriend swap because the lyrics are hilariously creepy. BTW doing an google image search on "Roommates Girlfriend Swap"... totally NSFW... in the end I couldn't find any pics of Mark and Young Governor together... so I just gave you the guv.


Listen:Roommates "Back to the Sun / Girlfriend Swap"




Roommates - Back to the Sun / Girlfriend Swap