UNVEIL COVERS EP Listen here: http://robertsandlord.bandcamp.com/album/covers

Roberts and Lord have never actually met in person, although in this electronic age, that doesn’t seem to matter or indeed stop a musical alliance so extraordinarily talented that cyberspace can barely contain their genius. With Simon Lord’s whip-smart lyrics and Rafter Robert’s technical know-how, the duo have created this year’s most engaging, unusual and topsy-turvy pop debut, named eponymously, Eponymous. Although, debut is a weird word to use when it comes to Roberts & Lord since the total number of albums Rafter Roberts and Simon Lord have released outnumbers some small armies. Simon Lord is best known for his work with Simian but has more recently involved with a number of other projects including The Black Ghosts, Nautiluss and Lukid and Rafter Roberts is a respected producer (having worked with the likes of Sufjan Stevens, The Fiery Furnaces, The Rapture and Rogue Wave) as well as being a solo artist in his own right.

Eponymous charts the course of recent pop music history and stews it up together—reggaeton, funky garage punk, soul, hip-hop and R&B. You can download the brand new single “Interior Demon” HERE:

http://robertsandlord.bandcamp.com/track/interior-demon
http://soundcloud.com/asthmatickitty/roberts-lord-interior-demon

Unable to quench their desire to work together on their match clearly made in internet heaven, the duo have recorded a supplement to the album in the form of a covers EP (called, er, Covers), with versions so unpredictable as to make a grown-up gasp. Is it really an amalgam of their influences, or random tracks chosen for comic effect? We’ll really never know but this is what you get when you cross Because by The Beatles, Got to Give it Up by Marvin Gaye, I Would Die 4 U by Prince with The Root by D’Angelo. You can listen to the EP here: http://robertsandlord.bandcamp.com/album/covers

Remember MySpace? Rafter Roberts and Simon Lord sure do—they owe their new band to it. Well, sort of; this is a band that would’ve happened regardless, a collaboration constellationally fated, a thing bound to be born, and born to be fun. History: Earlier this year, Lord (ex Simian) was combing the interwebs looking for collaboration ideas. A click lead to a click-click which lead to a click onto a blog-hosted video for Roberts’ Animal Feelings track “No F—ing Around.” Then click, click, et cetera click, and a MySpace message was sent from Lord in London to Roberts in California. This “hella MySpace hookup,” as says Roberts, has now blossomed into a brand-new Asthmatic Kitty full-length album titled, eponymously, Eponymous.

Eponymous is the result of two producers at the top of their game, but it sounds nothing like what you’d expect from a couple tech-heads. This is no over-considered, over-produced prog opera (despite the prog-rock sounding band name). Misters Roberts and Lord have made a warm, loud, healthy album of dance music that feels alive—and alive it’ll leap right out of your stereo and burrow like a baby fox into your big, happy beating heart. So, here’s the party, have fun, make sure your laces are tied in good square knots, and don’t forget to drink water.

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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD:
Roberts and Lord “Windmill” : http://asthmatickitty.com/mp3/roberts_and_lord_-_eponymous_-_%20windmill.mp3

The video for their first single “Windmill” is here (grab your leotard!): http://asthmatickitty.com/news.php?newsID=705