Artist: Rooftop Runners
From: Berlin, Germany
Album: We Are Here EP
Style: Alternative / Indie / Trip pop
Members: Benedikt & Tobias MacIsaac
Production: Angela Seserman
Tracklisting: Streets, Energize, Bang Bang, She Devil
Website: www.rooftoprunners.com, www.facebook.com/rooftoprunner
Highlights: 2012 European tour successfully completed, performed at Club NME
Music Video for “Streets”: http://vimeo.com/34965015, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
“Streets” electronic remix:http://soundcloud.com/el
Sounds Like: Jeff Buckley, James Blake, Radiohead, Massive Attack
Bio: “Crippled in my youth, crippled in my youth, crippled in my youth and I’m trying to breathe”
The music of Rooftop Runners ripples positively original pop waves through far darker lyrics than you’d expect from your typical indie fair: a seething concoction of trippy electro beats and spine-shattering bass lines is equalized by soulful falsetto vocals and folksy, dissonant guitars, making for a sobering but enjoyable listen.
Forging a mix of menacing mood and moving melody out of their adopted city of Berlin, Germany, RTR are Canadian singer-songwriter brother duo Benedikt and Tobias MacIsaac. An internationally accomplished choreographer and dancer respectively, the brothers are no strangers to performing-arts success, having toured and performed extensively with world class troupes in Europe.
Rooftop Runners’ new 4 song EP “We Are Here” will be released April 3, 2012, and it’s meant as both an affirmation and a promise that “RTR has arrived and they are here to stay.” With fervent response from local music media and a rapidly growing fan-base, a European Tour completed and an eagerly-anticipated full length debut album also due in 2012, the siblings seem set to drop their pioneer strand of Trip-Pop at us from rooftops the world over before long. The EP “We Are Here” is just an introduction.