The Tape

Eliot Rose

Written by gzabriel on Saturday, 27 of December , 2008 at 10:27 am

Eliot Rose makes charming, electronically backed, bedroom pop with a D.I.Y attitude and a slightly lofi sound. If you can’t imagine these songs scribbled on the track list of an adorable mix cd or soundtracking the pivotal moments in another quirky indie comedy then shame on you. Supported by his knowledge of the thumb piano and his ventures in Casio driven pop music, Eliot Rose delivers songs that sound like a kid in his bedroom imagining wild adventures with all of his action figures, and scribbling down the melodies to go along. In his words:

Eliot Rose began recording music in 1999 under the name the Scientifics. In those early days he was a lo-fi Casio purist, singing songs about physics and love under lots of mid-range and tape hiss. Over the course of three albums The Scientifics’ fidelity climbed higher and their numbers grew. It was an exhilarating time, but it ended in exhaustion after a 2004 tour that scattered bandmates across the states and left the Scientifics’ future in doubt. In 2005, Eliot left the U.S., first to travel through Japan and then live in Romania for a year. During this time he learned to play the thumb piano and taught himself the homespun art of digital recording, continuing to engage in lots of trial and error upon returning to Portland. The resulting album, The Calculated Dream, released in August 2008, is full of peppy songs about longing, travel, pep itself, and death, buoyed up on on layers of synthesizer, thumb piano, sampled beats, and melodica. It is the first album to be released under Eliot’s own name, as a personal guarantee of quality to all listeners.

You’d be a fool not to check him out.

Eliot Rose – Brightness And The Blood

Eliot Rose – The Infinite Gloom

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