Starcleaner Reunion share “Plein Air,” the track is lifted from their recently announced EP, Café Life, which drops on September 20th. Last month the band announced their new EP Café Life with the release of “The Hand That I Put Down.” The band jokingly refers to their sound as “Euro-pop” a term coined by a promoter at one of their first shows. Café Life is indebted to a certain slowness, a ‘not-hurrying’ – title is a reference to a certain European way of life – refusing to rush anything and taking one’s time.

Starcleaner Reunion, includes old friends Singer Jo Roman, guitarists Pat Drummond & Neil Torman, and bassist Adam Kenter have been making music together in various configurations since they were high school students together in New Jersey, but never all together in the same group. In 2022 the members found themselves in New York and after meeting drummer Sam Unger the musical project began and the band released their debut EP Club Estrella, a collection of their earliest ideas.

For Café Life, the band decided to create a makeshift home studio over the course of several months. These informal sessions allowed the band more time to experiment during the recording process. Crucial to this evolution was linking up with Ruben Radlauer of Model/Actriz for mixing duties. From the start of their collaboration, they felt an immediate bond over their shared enthusiasm for putting unexpected sonic twists into the music. Listen closely and you’ll hear samples of rain and thunderstorms, rumbling 808 sub-bass, digital synthesizers ripped from a decade old copy of GarageBand, and ghostly spoken poetry buried deep in the mix of the 4 songs on Café Life.

Starcleaner Reunion
Café Life
Track List

1. The Hand That I Put Down
2. Snowfeel
3. Café Life
4. Plein Air

Starcleaner 2024 Tour Dates:

Sep 20th: Binghamton NY @ The Bundy Museum
Oct 24th: New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom w/ Hello Mary

Pre-order Café Life HERE