Cheapbabyy27 instantly evokes visions of an alien spacecraft descending to Earth. The ship's titanium-alloy entrance ramp extends downward into billows of vanilla vapor. The Burlington band's front person, synthist, songwriter and
likely alien explorer, Zack Schuster, glides out of the craft as if floating. LEDs trim their iridescent spacesuit. Gigantic speakers pop open from compartments all over the ship, blasting the throbbing, four-on-the-floor grind of opener "Rollerblading." Humanity is destined to twitch and pulse to the unrelenting dance beats.
At least that's what comes to mind in the gurgling first moments of the newly released EP.
Schuster, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, is a club kid through and through. They have released post-punk and dance music under the moniker Roost for a few years and recently changed it to Roost.World to differentiate from other bands with the same name. In Vermont, though, the group can be called simply Roost.