Mysterious Portland Disco-Pop Outfit ROMAANCE Brings Italo Heat to New Single “Touch”
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ROMAANCE aren’t here to answer your questions. They’re here to make you dance. The Portland-based disco-pop outfit’s new single “Touch” is out now, and it’s exactly the kind of Italo-soaked, synth-driven floor-filler that makes you forget what year it is.
Producer Jason Wann, known for his work with synth-pop duo SINES and his dance-focused alter ego Blood Oyster, is the architect behind ROMAANCE’s sound. Beyond that, the band’s identity stays deliberately murky. The four-piece includes two sisters named Val and Emma, reportedly met at an ABBA trivia night, alongside members credited only as “The Model” (MiniKorg 700S and bass) and “Sex Object” (drums and percussion). Make of that what you will.
“Touch” pulls hard from the Italo disco and synth-pop sounds of the ’80s, reinventing that vintage palette with glossy production and real dance-floor momentum. Warm, passionate vocals bring new wave energy to the surface, and the accompanying music video leans fully into the technicolor, retro-disco aesthetic the band has made its own.
The themes running through the track are timely. Connection, proximity, and the strange emotional distance of the digital age sit at the song’s core, giving its celebratory groove a surprisingly resonant undercurrent.
ROMAANCE’s 2025 debut album, ‘Dust Among The Stars’, laid the foundation: eight tracks of cinematic disco-pop built on thunderous drums, throbbing basslines, and velvet harmonies. “Touch” keeps that momentum going without missing a step. It’s a confident, hooky, and genuinely fun single from a project with serious creative range.