With Fever, Rook Monroe keeps stretching the boundaries of alt-pop until they nearly disappear. The track drifts between rap, rock, and psychedelia, moving with the strange calm of a dream you only half remember. Built on warm basslines, twin guitars, and a pulsing 808 undercurrent, it feels both grounded and weightless — one foot in Los Angeles, the other somewhere far beyond.
“On first listen, Fever might register as a psychedelic drift, a haze of sound and sensation, but beneath the surface lies a transmission of something far greater: Rook’s documented encounter with the interstellar unknown,” he shares. “From the temples of ancient Egypt and the chronicles of Rome to The Nihon Shoki of Japan and the sky battle of Nuremberg, from Halley’s telescope to the edge of cosmic revelation,” Rook tears open the door between myth and contact, declaring once again: “We are not alone.”
That vision threads through the song, where shimmering synths and spectral ad-libs collide with introspective lyrics that touch on Stranger Things, UFOs, and Gin & Juice. It’s cinematic but deeply personal, the sound of someone turning curiosity into catharsis. “Do you ever think about how every one of our problems is only a planet Earth problem?,” he wrote on Instagram. “We as a species stretch ourselves thin pondering if we're the center of the universe and the truth is, we're not. We're not even alone.”
Following the explosive Brrrt and the genre-blurring i don’t wanna be you, Fever finds Rook looking inward while reaching outward. Born in Chicago and now based in Los Angeles, he’s written for artists like Rihanna and The Chainsmokers, but his solo work reveals a far more personal vision. With his upcoming EP, SLIM., Rook Monroe steps fully into his own orbit defined by emotion, invention, and a fearless sense of perspective.