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Good Life (with Turid Alida R​ø​sten)

by Wauwatosa

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Oslo-based collaborative pop project Wauwatosa are back, three years since their debut album via Spirit Level.

Guest vocalist Turid Alida Rosten brings a gently seductive presence to the track - “get on the phone with me sometime tonight…” - channeling the soft sly intimacy of late-90s/early-00s R&B.

As Turid explains, the line reflects a personal mantra that emerged from the bumps of 2020:

“It was actually written out last year as a reminder to myself - to the extremely unsociable ‘pandemical’ version of myself. I made a weekly notification in my calendar for 2021 saying ‘Remember to call someone this year.’”

Combined with Wauwatosa’s signature collage of tape-soaked drums, tones and samples, the track lands somewhere between the modern psych of Tame Impala & UMO, and the forward-facing R&B of Erika de Casier.

Of the composition process, Martin from Wauwatosa says:

“A couple of years ago, I bought a noisy, old 4-track cassette recorder, Teac 144, the one Springsteen used for Nebraska. I have a weakness for old, faulty technology - sparkling, noisy, unpredictable - and that was kind of the starting point for the whole track.

I hooked up my MS2000 synthesizer and RE-201 Space Echo to the cassette recorder, and just sat there tweaking sounds for hours until I reached the dreamy, glitchy, nostalgic character I was picturing.”

credits

released May 11, 2021
Written by Martin Torvik Langerød, Turid Alida Røsten & Sigurd Ytre-Arne
Lyrics by Turid Alida Røsten
Produced by Sigurd Ytre-Arne & Martin Langerød
Mixed by Sigurd Ytre-Arne & Martin Langerød
Mastered by Karl Klaseie, Øra Mastering

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Wauwatosa Oslo, Norway

Norwegian collaborative music project, centred around core producers and songwriters Sigurd Ytre-Arne and Martin Langerød, working with a lengthy cast of friends and collaborators including Emilie Storaas, Marianna Sangita and Turid Alida Røsten.

Their melancholic and richly melodic songs layer dusty samples and howling synths around a unique and strong vocal.
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