Luke MacRoberts Album Release

What is home? Is it defined by geography or by intangibles such as feelings, family, romantic partners, or even a beloved set of aesthetic criteria? For genre-defying singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Luke MacRoberts, home is both something he’s searching for, and desperately running away from. His sophomore album, Escapism, is a reckoning of sorts. It finds MacRoberts grappling with a multi-layered paradoxical inner dialogue, and trying to make sense of his transience.

“I think of each song as another chapter or character in the book; another facet of my own escapism that has really plagued me in my adult life,” the Chicago-based artist says. “Whether it's in avoidance of discomfort, compulsive behavior with romance and substances, the way that I relate to my past self, or the way that I see the future unfolding, escape has been a constant plague in my life. I don't know myself without it.”

MacRoberts is a fearless and an imaginative artist who formally studied jazz in college, and has played extensively in punky, proggy post-hardcore bands. He currently plays in the post-hardcore/post-punk band Crime in Antarctica, and the indie-psych band Flash Flash Comfort. As a solo artist, MacRoberts writes non-linear, sprawling songs that often explode and come crashing down into ethereal delicateness. These compositions often have hard lefts into unexpected genres, and many of MacRoberts’ tunes feature Brazilian percussion. Previously, MacRoberts has issued one full-length, a string of singles, and an EP.

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