Starcleaner Reunion – Umbrella

Starcleaner Reunion release their anticipated debut album, Umbrella, today via Take Care Records.

On the impressively self-produced album, Starcleaner Reunion blend together poetic abstraction, recombinant collage, and sonic craftsmanship, expanding on their retro-futurist pop sound, tied together by Jo Roman’s entrancing vocals and visual prose, fragments of fleeting thoughts, memories, and observations, as evidenced by the album’s singles, the playful “Weather Instrument,” the woozy “Never Odd or Even,” and the lush “Lay On Plastic Moment,” and album standout “Tea Drops Park,” released today.

Following the release of Cafe Life, their second EP that garnered them attention from outlets like Pitchfork, The FADER, Stereogum and Paste, the band performed live tirelessly, fine-tuning their material along the way, including tours with buzzy acts like This Is Lorelei, Friko and TOPS. In the summer of 2025, after completing their biggest tour to date, the bandmates hunkered down in drummer Adam Kenter’s garage studio. Surrounded by tour souvenirs—stockpiles of gear purchased off Facebook marketplace—familiar songs unspooled in radically new directions. “This is maybe the first time where we were writing without any self-imposed limitations regarding how we’d translate the songs live,” guitarist Neil Torman says, describing how tracks were chopped, warped, and reversed. On Umbrella the instrumentation is more varied, as the band invited friends to add embellishments, which led to sprinklings of clarinet, horns, and violin, the latter courtesy of mixer Ruben Radlauer’s (Model-Actriz) father.

Starcleaner Reunion is Jo Roman, Pat Drummond, Neil Torman, and Adam Kenter.

Tour Dates:

09/26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Minimart

11/07 – Queens, NY @ TV Eye

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