Irresistibly danceable, lovetempo is the new project from Brooklyn-based musician, producer, and singer Mattie Safer (The Rapture, Poolside). Featuring Safer’s soft, sultry vocals and sophisti-pop sensibilities over a hypnotic blend of jazz-funk, disco, latin percussion, and house music, lovetempo’s unique brand of lonelyhearts disco is guaranteed to move you, body and soul. Their self-titled debut was released in April 2023 on Razor-N-Tape to great critical acclaim, breaking into the top 10 of KCRW’s influential Top 30 Album chart and reaching 72 on the NACC top 200 independent radio charts. The band recently toured the West Coast with 79.5 and played at Mexico City’s venerated Departamento. Safer began working on lovetempo while on a European tour with Poolside in early 2020. Inspired by a broken heart and a desire to dance the pain away, Safer began writing songs, programming beats, and recording bass, synth & vocal parts in hotel rooms and stolen moments between soundchecks and shows. Returning home just days before the pandemic lockdown, Safer continued refining lovetempo’s sound from the solitude of his Brooklyn bedroom, bringing in remote collaborators: keyboardist Morgan Wiley (Adi Oasis, Midnight Magic), percussionists Brijean Murphy (Brijean, Poolside) and Alberto Lopez (Ruben Bladés, LCD Soundsystem), vocalists Mel Chambers + Meka Brown, co-producer/saxophonist Grant Zubritsky (Chet Faker, Mitski), and mixer Abe Seiferth (Nation Of Language, Guerilla Toss).