Description
Release Date Friday 19th September 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
When Ryan DeRobertis announced the name change of his project from Saint Pepsi to Skylar Spence, there was no indication of
any stylistic departure, though the change arrived with a musical shift toward faster tempos and more pristine production.
Whereas Saint Pepsi had often used decades-old boogie, disco, and new wave as grist for the sampling mill, Skylar Spence is
intent on trafficking more overtly in those genre aesthetics through his own production techniques and vocal contributions. With
Prom King, DeRobertis reoriented his music for his new full-band live act and wound up with an album full of tight and enveloping
dance tunes.
Working with Carpark Records “gave me the confidence to ‘go big’ with the new material: to write pop songs with universal
messages in the sonic wrapping paper that I’ve grown accustomed to,” DeRobertis says.
While DeRobertis’ previous long-players had been more amorphous collections in the style of beat tapes, Prom King is compact
and cohesive, with the album’s varied stylistic references (new wave, UK garage, boogie) united through strong guitar melodies
and Todd Edwards-ian cobblings-together of tiny vocal samples. Prom King was DeRobertis making sense of missed
opportunities. His high school did not have a prom king; he has filled the position with an imaginative album of personal and
musical revisionism. In the last decade, the album has taken on a life of its own. With over 42 million streams and a strong cult
following, Carpark & Skylar Spence are excited to reissue Prom King (10 year Anniversary Edition), out September 19th.
Tracklisting
Side A
1. Intro 2. Can't See You 3. Prom Kind 4. I Can't Be Your Superman 5. Ridiculous! 6. Fall Harder 7. Bounce Is Back 8. Affairs 9. All I Want
10. Cash Wednesday
Side B
11. Fiona Coyne 12. Carousel 13. Cry Wolf 14. Why Do You Wanna Dance 15. Practice 16. Song For Rio 17. Fall Harder (Single Mix)
18. Fall Harder (Demo) 19. Affairs (Demo)
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