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Fools is a watershed event in the genesis of post-bossa. The record subverts traditional concepts of what “alternative” music is, disposing of tired chord progressions, kitschy themes, and larping emo aesthetics. The compositions here show what music can be and do when it does not pander to an audience, allowing Roseboro unprecedented freedom to weave poems of grief, girls, and God over melodies indifferent to what the genre might seem to be. The result is visceral, vulnerable, and most of all, true. 

 Roseboro’s most collaborative work to date,  Fools hosts personnel from Brooklyn’s most talented friend group: most consistently, neighbors Luke Jr and Yamp, performing on and co-producing nearly every track with Reid Devereaux contributing horns, bass, and slide guitar. The four musicians had already headlined tours together the previous year, performing at SXSW, Montreal Jazz Festival and supporting dear Ron Gallo who has been championing John for over two years, often to deaf ears... John would go on to arrange and perform Ron’s “Psycho Moment” for the album. Other featured artists include fan favorites and familiar faces: Liam McMcay (sign crushes motorist), Mei Semones, John Lisi (Twin Brother), Juliana Chahayed, and Liana Flores. 

Just a few years ago, there was no John Roseboro. After a bad relationship and a worse break up, John was virtually homeless, penniless, and annonymous. Maintaining faith has brought him everything and this is echoed in interviews and throughout his discography. Independently managing, funding, and distributing his work John has to say “I am gambling on the integrity of my relationships and the impact of these songs… thank you for holding my hand.”

 Public Confession Art House (July, 2024)

Fools (2024) 

Fools by John Roseboro
All songs written, performed, and produced by John Roseboro*
Engineering and co-production by Luke Jr 
Assistant Engineering by Yamp and Reid Devereaux 
Recorded at home in Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY. 

Vocals, Guitars, Bass (4,5,9) Percussion (1,5,8,9,10), Accordion (4), Saz (10) by John Roseboro
Drums and Percussion (1,3,4,5,6,8,9,10)  by Luke Jr
Saxophone (1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10) Piano (5,8) by Yamp
Trumpet (2,8) French Horn (5,9) Bass (2,5) Slide (8) by Reid Devereaux 
Vocals (1,2) Guitar (1) by Mei Semones 
Upright (1,3,8,10) by John Lisi 
Bass (6) by Michael Barnes
Percussion (2) by Ransom McCarthy 
Violin (10) by Claudius Agrippa 
Clarinet (7) by Regina
Vocal (6) by Liana Flores

"Johnny" cowritten and performed Mei Semones
"I Did The Math" featuring Sign Crushes Motorist
"Crumb" featuring Liana Flores
"Alt Ego" featuring Juliana Chahayed

"Psycho Moment" originally written by Ron Gallo*

Cover Art by Lauren Cline 
Mixed and Mastered by Luke Jr at home in Brooklyn, NY

Public Confession Art House LLC (All Rights Reserved)

Johnny (feat. Mei Semones)

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music, lyrics + production - Jacob Allen
originally written in 2014, riff contains an interpolation of midas touch's 'love in triplicate'
mixing & additional prod - Dillip Harris
engineered by Andy Ramsay
mastered by Guy Davie

guitars, vocals, noise - Jacob Allen
bass - Rudi Creswick
sax, wurly, noise - Harvey Grant
drums - Ellis Dupuy

Innocent bullshit
Warm but not in love
I see what you are tryna pull
Well please don’t let yourself think that u
Could get away with it, you sexy little thing 

She’s just a tease
Completely at ease
She’s just a tease

Moon under water
You would not know what to do with the words that you drained from the room
You flirt, it’s dirt, the way you treat your boy
The poor son, he’s so in love with a sexy little thing 

She’s just a tease
Completely at ease
She’s just a tease

Moon under water, you could not know what to do if I fell,  took you to the blue
So don’t speak, don’t explain
How you could bleed this boy
He is numb, so in love, with a sexy little thing 

Won’t you swim with me

Oh moon
With all of your grief
Won’t you set these seas aside for me
So I may lay eyes upon my sweet, sweet moon

She’s just a tease
She's such a tease
She's just a tease

Moon Undah Water

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I’m sensitive, I feel a lot. Since I was a kid people around me made me think that I was just to weak, that crying for how beautiful the colors in the sky looked like was stupid. Crying over my favorite song was corny, crying because you love dearly makes you less than a man, just crying was being incompetent and being and a joke.

I grew up with the idea of changing that, it’s unfair that people are not allowed to enjoy life, when us humans started to become like this? How sad. I want to give people a place to cry, to feel, to experience joy with no judgment, somewhere we can be free.

I couldn’t find this place, that’s why I decided to create it myself.

R O X X it’s a safe place, for you

Be freed by the music, let the vibrations guide you

Stay tuned.

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