Staircase Made of Rope [LP]

Roomer - Staircase Made of Rope [LP]

Berlin-based trio Roomer weave noise, melody, and memory into expansive guitar-driven songs. Formed by long-time friends and collaborators Ronja Schößler, Ludwig Wandinger, and Luka Aron, the band brings together distinct voices from across Europe's avant-garde, folk, and electronic scenes, folding these lineages into a sound that moves between shoegaze density, diaristic songwriting, and sonic exploration. Their music often holds opposites in suspension: clarity and blur, structure and drift, intimacy and collapse. Their debut album Leaving It All to Chance (SQM 032LP, 2025,) introduced this language in full, pairing emotionally direct songs with shifting textures and dense layers of distortion. With Staircase Made of Rope, their second album on Squama, Roomer widen the frame further. Built largely from improvisations and first takes, the record embraces instability as method, moving between density and silence while allowing melodies to surface and dissolve in unexpected ways. A1. Something New (5:24) A2. Grey (3:35) A3. Have You Ever Been a Fool (3:42) A4. Written By (5:26) A5. No Different After All (1:30) B1. For Yves (3:04) B2. Good On My Own (3:38) B3. Sundown (3:33) B4. Untitled (3:30) B5. Staircase Made of Rope (5:30)