RODNEY CROMWELL: Memory Box (Bot33)

Released by Happy Robots
Distributed by Cargo Records
℗© Happy Robots Records

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After a two and a half year hiatus, synthpop artist Rodney Cromwell from Catford, London will be releasing a new single via Happy Robots.

'Memory Box' is a song about perceptions of reality and the certainty of our memories. How do we believe anything in a world where truth and honesty are of so little worth?

Rodney Cromwell is the nom de plume of Adam Cresswell. With minimal percussion, his lyrics float over a bed of vintage synthesizers and effected guitar. "I wanted the song to have the feel of a marching clockwork toy, so the beat is really simple and metronomic with the synths doing the talking.” 

Shunning a clean '80s synth sound, the song is almost psychedelic in outlook, reminiscent of the minimal synth of acts such as Broadcast, Pram or Silver Apples.  The video, an atmospheric montage of heavily effected and distorted shots of rural Britain, was inspired by film auteurs such as Stan Brakhage, Chris Marker or Len Lye.

This single is also the title track of the forthcoming ‘Memory Box' album. The LP is a mixture of synthpop, electronic hauntological excursions, dreampop and European coldwave and is scheduled for release in early 2022.  Using analogue synths, drum machines with parts played almost entirely live (with minimal computer sequencing) and vocals free of autotune, this LP conjures up an organic, dream-like world, inspired as much by Alice in Wonderland, Franz Kafka and Anna Kavan as by its sonic influences such as Kraftwerk and The Cure. The sonic pallet of 'Memory Box' is both reassuringly familiar and completely distinctive.

Rodney Cromwell's debut LP 'Age of Anxiety' (2015) and 'Rodney's English Disco' EP (2018) garnered Rodney Cromwell coverage in Electronic Sound, NME, Huffington Post, Paste, Record Collector, BBC6 Music and national RNE3 in Spain, for whom he recorded a live session. The debut album featured in scores of Best of Lists including Electronic Sound, and The Electricity Club who named him ‘Most Promising New Act’.

Rodney will be playing a handful of shows to support the LP release. His debut festival appearance at Indietracks was described as “a spiritual experience" and led to slots with artists including Pram, Marsheaux, Death & Vanilla, Rowetta and Steve Davis. In 2020, he performed as part of Damo Suzuki's backing band.

RODNEY CROMWELL: Memory Box (Single) (Bot29)

Taken from the album 'Memory Box'
Released 18/03/22
Label: Happy Robots www.happyrobots.co.uk 
Distribution Cargo Records www.cargorecords.co.uk
Booking: info@happyrobots.co.uk 
Catalogue: Bot33

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"Rodney Cromwell's music belongs to the future" NME

"His new lo-fi disco laments, are joyfully simple and painfully funny" Huffington Post

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Rodney Cromwell’s evocative electronic indietronica looks to the early experimental-electronica of the 70’s and 80’s to construct a soundtrack for the post-truth world. Where the debut album ‘Age of Anxiety’ drew on personal demons, on the 2018 EP 'Rodney's English Disco,' social and political tribulations inspire his wry songs of woe.

Recorded in Catford (UK) and mixed at ACME Hall Studios, New York with his producer Rich Bennett, the next Rodney Cromwell album 'Memory Box' is completed ready for release in 2022. The album is a mix of synthpop, hauntological excursions, dreampop and European coldwave.  Sonically it sits somewhere between Kraftwerk, The Cure, Stereolab and contemporary cult acts such as Black Marble and Advisory Circle. Its sound is both reassuringly familiar and completely distinctive.

Since the release of 'Age of Anxiety' in 2015, Rodney Cromwell has been featured by the likes of NME, Electronic Sound Magazine, Huffington Post, Paste, BBC6 Music and national RNE3 in Spain for whom he recorded a live session. He was named 'Most Promising New Act' by The Electricity Club, 'Barry was an arms dealer' featured in the 2015 Official Festive 50 and 'Age of Anxiety' was in the Electronic Sound Albums of the Year. He has appeared on compilations alongside Cavern of Anti-matter, John Foxx, Devo, OMD, Katy Perry and many more. 

The live set incorporates analogue synths, video visuals and live instrumentation along with Rodney’s ‘offbeat wit’. His debut festival appearance at Indietracks in 2015 was described as 'like a spiritual experience". He has made further festival appearances in the UK and in Spain and has supported bands including Pram, Marsheaux, Death & Vanilla, Rowetta and 'snookerstar DJ' Steve Davis. His sole performance in 2020 was as part of Damo Suzuki's backing band at The Lexington, London.

Memory Box

RODNEY CROMWELL: Waiting Room

RODNEY CROMWELL: Fluctuations

Taken from the album 'Memory Box'
To be released: 18/03/2022
Label: Happy Robots www.happyrobots.co.uk 
Distribution Cargo Records www.cargorecords.co.uk
Booking: info@happyrobots.co.uk 
Catalogue: Bot33

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"Rodney Cromwell's music belongs to the future" NME

"His new lo-fi disco laments, are joyfully simple and painfully funny" Huffington Post

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Indietronica artist Rodney Cromwell from Catford releases his new single ‘Opus Three’ via Happy Robots on 3rd February. It’s a floor-filling synth-driven dance number about disconnected lovers trying to conjure optimism as the world stands the brink of apocalypse.

Conceived as a love-letter to a lost synthesizer, ‘Opus Three’ is at it’s heart the simplest of dance numbers; a full-fat 120bpm beat, layered with a chunky Moog Opus 3 synth line, is overlaid with percussion and the primitive buzzing tones of a 1960’s pocket stylophone. Inspired by the haunting and surreal novel ‘Ice’ by Anna Kavan, the song is about two lovers on the brink of apocalypse, separated by distance, lost in time, trying to find positivity in a world where there is little. “Don’t let it be, catastrophe” repeats the chorus, trying to conjure optimism from somewhere.

The B-side ‘Perception Management’ is an atmospheric dystopian synth instrumental that might be described as as ‘post-truth pop’. The maxi single includes an extended dance mix produced by Rich Bennett with remixes from Dublin synthpop artist Circuit 3 and Happy Robots’ latest signing folktronica act, Field Glass.

‘Opus Three’ is taken from the forthcoming ‘Memory Box' album. The LP is a mixture of synthpop, hauntology, dreampop and European coldwave and releases on 18th March.  Using analogue synths, drum machines with minimal computer sequencing the LP conjures an organic, dream-like world, inspired as much by Alice in Wonderland and Franz Kafka as by its sonic influences such as Kraftwerk, The Cure, Polyrock and Stereolab, creating a distinctive and compelling world.

​Rodney Cromwell's debut LP 'Age of Anxiety' (2015) and 'Rodney's English Disco' EP (2018) garnered Rodney Cromwell coverage in amongst others Electronic Sound, NME, Huffington Post, Paste, Record Collector, BBC6 Music and RNE3 in Spain, for whom he recorded a live session. The debut album featured in scores of Best of Lists including Electronic Sound and The Electricity Club who named him ‘Most Promising New Act’. He has played lives shows with acts like Pram, Death & Vanilla, M!R!M, Rowetta and Steve Davis. In 2020, he performed as part of Damo Suzuki of Can’s backing band.

‘Memory Box,’ the lead single from the album, premiered in Post-Punk.com and was voted by fans into the Dandelion Radio Official Festive 50.  It has received coverage across the globe including national radio play in Japan, Finland and Spain and multiple spins on BBC 6 Music in the UK.

RODNEY CROMWELL: Opus Three

To be released: 14/01/2022
Label: Happy Robots www.happyrobots.co.uk 
Distribution Cargo Records www.cargorecords.co.uk
Booking: info@happyrobots.co.uk 
Catalogue: Bot33

QUOTES
=======
"Rodney Cromwell's music belongs to the future" NME

"His new lo-fi disco laments, are joyfully simple and painfully funny" Huffington Post

PRESS RELEASE
=============
Rodney Cromwell’s evocative electronic indietronica looks to the early experimental-electronica of the 70’s and 80’s to construct a soundtrack for the post-truth world. Where the debut album ‘Age of Anxiety’ drew on personal demons, on the 2018 EP 'Rodney's English Disco,' social and political tribulations inspire his wry songs of woe.

Recorded in Catford (UK) and mixed at ACME Hall Studios, New York with his producer Rich Bennett, the next Rodney Cromwell album 'Memory Box' is completed ready for release in 2022. The album is a mix of synthpop, hauntological excursions, dreampop and European coldwave.  Sonically it sits somewhere between Kraftwerk, The Cure, Stereolab and contemporary cult acts such as Black Marble and Advisory Circle. Its sound is both reassuringly familiar and completely distinctive.

Since the release of 'Age of Anxiety' in 2015, Rodney Cromwell has been featured by the likes of NME, Electronic Sound Magazine, Huffington Post, Paste, BBC6 Music and national RNE3 in Spain for whom he recorded a live session. He was named 'Most Promising New Act' by The Electricity Club, 'Barry was an arms dealer' featured in the 2015 Official Festive 50 and 'Age of Anxiety' was in the Electronic Sound Albums of the Year. He has appeared on compilations alongside Cavern of Anti-matter, John Foxx, Devo, OMD, Katy Perry and many more. 

The live set incorporates analogue synths, video visuals and live instrumentation along with Rodney’s ‘offbeat wit’. His debut festival appearance at Indietracks in 2015 was described as 'like a spiritual experience". He has made further festival appearances in the UK and in Spain and has supported bands including Pram, Marsheaux, Death & Vanilla, Rowetta and 'snookerstar DJ' Steve Davis. His sole performance in 2020 was as part of Damo Suzuki's backing band at The Lexington, London.

RODNEY CROMWELL: Intercom

RODNEY CROMWELL: Memory Box (AUW's Time Capsule Remix)

RODNEY CROMWELL: Memory Box (Mood Taeg Remix)

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RODNEY CROMWELL: Memory Box

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Releases include those by artists CLOUD STUDIES, ALICE HUBBLE, MOOD TAEG, ROMAN ANGELOS, HOLOGRAM TEEN, RODNEY CROMWELL and ARTHUR & MARTHA. Distributed by Cargo Records.