AP Track Review
Coming Up Roses by Loverman (singer-songwriter Sasha Papadin) has a wistful, drank too many Jacks, smoked too many cigs, broken but hopeful tone told in a sparse yet squinty eyed strong way. I love the production here. Everything is somber, held back a bit in a sort of depressive early morning glow which makes it all more moving. I am thankful the aesthetic was real instead of melodramatic. Of the song Papadin shared the following:
“While writing Coming up Roses, I was thinking about people like Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, and my own Russian poet father. I realized all poets are romantics and all romantics are gamblers. There are no sure bets if you’re reaching for the stars, in art or in love. The song is about not playing it safe and instead chasing this high of that magic moment when the universe tilts your way and everything goes in your favor. I find those moments beautiful and melancholic at the same time because of the hopeful desperation. When it came time to make the music video, I found myself in Las Vegas at the roulette table with my brother the director and my cousin the key grip. Suddenly, it felt like we were living the song and it only seemed right to throw the rest of the video budget onto the table. Then we went out into the outskirts of town and captured the fleeting atmosphere of having won.”
Produced by Gus Seyffert (Beck, The Black Keys, Michael Kiwanuka) featuring Joey Waronker (Atoms for Peace, R.E.M.) on drums. Written and performed by Loverman.
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Robb Donker
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