Planningtorock

Janine Rostron aka Planningtorock combines what seem like opposites: Her music is melancholy and euphoric, epic in scale yet deeply personal, strikingly alien but weirdly familiar.

The 12 songs on her new album W were composed over the last three and a half years, mainly recorded in solitude in her Berlin studio. She sings and plays everything and mixed the record in Sweden at the end of 2010 during an intense session with Christoffer Berg. “On the album I mess around with my voice a lot and I really enjoyed that,” she says.

One listen to W is all it takes to realise that Planningtorock is not tethered to the facts of everyday life or to any kind of voice. Planningtorock is about ideas and fantasy. It’s about emotion and exploring the unknown. As you can perfectly hear on her live performance at the Electronic Beats Festival in Cologne!