This is Babymorocco: swaggy, sexy, supercharged. He’s the living, breathing feeling of being 12-deep in a basement club you charged in through the back. He has one plan locked for the ascendant next phase of his solo career: “I want to go absolutely insane with it.” His debut LP Amour (exec produced by Frost Children) is a breathless gust of 2010s trash-pop couture, 2-step, happy hardcore, French electro, proto-EDM, and utter BPM madness. The album landed him on covers of The Gay Times, Dork, TOH! Mag, and pieces from Pitchfork, The Guardian, NME, DIY, Fader, etc. By the time the 16 no-filler tracks have barreled by, you’ll hear influences from Justice, Sugababes, and Basshunter to Space Cowboy and Lindsay Lohan. And after memorable tours with The Dare, Jockstrap, Dorian Electra, Coucou Chloe and Frost Children, there’s no mistaking Rocco for anything short of a club innovator and pop saboteur.
Amour is out now via True Panther.
Press
“The songs are fun, self-absorbed, and sometimes a bit trashy from the self-taught musician who is writing a lore that fans will hopefully obsess over as much as they do his biceps.” – GayTimes
“These hidden glimmers of real feeling save Amour from being more than just another party album; it’s inviting and sensual, like the sexiest person in the smoking area who, after a good conversation and a cigarette, grabs your hand and leads you into the fog.” – Pitchfork
“‘Amour’ … Immersed in turn-of-the-millennium Ministry of Sound aesthetics, Babymorocco raves in a throwback misfit party zeitgeist. ” – DIY Mag