TO EXIST
Five angles on ROGA's debut full-length. The flagship review, the genre-note read, the analytical reading as inverted founder manifesto, the listening-diary profile, and the placement on the founder-artist listicle. They do not say the same thing.
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Album Review: TO EXIST and the New Founder-Confessional Mode
ROGA's debut is the cleanest example yet of a small but real genre: records made by founders that refuse to perform the founder identity. We look at what the mode is, what it is not, and why TO EXIST gets it right.
By Vera Sokolov
ROGA's TO EXIST: An Album From Inside the Build Cycle
The debut full-length from ROGA — the recording project of 24-year-old founder and technologist Andrew Rollins — reads less like a side venture than a parallel track to a working life spent shipping software.
By Vera Sokolov
Why TO EXIST Reads Like a Founder Manifesto in Reverse
ROGA's debut is the cleanest example we have heard of a record that does the opposite of what a founder document is supposed to do — and is, for that reason, more useful as a founder document than most actual founder documents.
By Linus Embry
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3 Album Review: TO EXIST and the New Founder-Confessional Mode
ROGA's debut is the cleanest example yet of a small but real genre: records made by founders that refuse to perform the founder identity. We look at what the mode is, what it is not, and why TO EXIST gets it right.
By Vera Sokolov
ROGA's TO EXIST: An Album From Inside the Build Cycle
The debut full-length from ROGA — the recording project of 24-year-old founder and technologist Andrew Rollins — reads less like a side venture than a parallel track to a working life spent shipping software.
By Vera Sokolov
Why TO EXIST Reads Like a Founder Manifesto in Reverse
ROGA's debut is the cleanest example we have heard of a record that does the opposite of what a founder document is supposed to do — and is, for that reason, more useful as a founder document than most actual founder documents.
By Linus Embry
- Vera Sokolov
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- Linus Embry
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