No Rome

Guendoline Rome Viray Gomez (born 30 August 1999), better known by his stage name No Rome, is a London-based Filipino musician from San Francisco del Monte. His 2021 single "Spinning", which featured Charli XCX and The 1975, charted at No. 94 on the UK Singles Chart. Gomez also cowrote The 1975's 2018 single "TooTimeTooTimeTooTime", which charted at No. 26.

Life and career

Early life Guendoline Rome Viray Gomez grew up in the suburb of San Francisco del Monte within Quezon City, Metro Manila. His father was a former DJ and his mother a church singer, while his younger sister Gabriel performed under the name Aunt Robert and his older brother Zeon under the name U-Pistol, short for Ulzzang Pistol. Growing up, he became interested in visual art after taking pictures with his father's camera, and spent extended periods on Flickr and later Tumblr, on the grounds that its contents were annotated with information for further research; he was later inspired to start writing after reading books of poems by artists such as Frank O'Hara and Robert Frost. "When I was just starting, many people discouraged me, saying, ‘No, Rome, not in music; try something else.’ That stuck in my mind." — Gomez in October 2019 He then adopted the stage name "No Rome", based on a common response to him stating that he was starting in the music industry, followed by the EP Fantasy, both on Number Line Records. and in 2015, he released "Know U" on Mermaid Avenue, about being ghosted by inopportune partners, and the EP Hurry Home & Rest on Number Line Records. and the following month he released "Seventeen" on Ryan Hemsworth's Secret Songs label, a song about a friend's failed romance; Wave Racer would cover the song in June 2021.

Gomez then entered into correspondence with Samuel Burgess-Johnson and sent him his demos, who proceeded to share them with his flatmate Matty Healy, who invited him to London and signed him to his label Dirty Hit. In 2018, Healy and George Daniel produced Rome's third EP, RIP Indo Hisashi, who later adapted it for their own "TooTimeTooTimeTooTime", which charted at No. 26 on the UK Singles Chart. Healy and Daniel also produced Gomez's fourth EP, Crying in the Prettiest Places, the following year, which charted at No. 14 on the UK R&B Albums Chart. He joined The 1975 onstage for the “Narcissist” performance in the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, marking him as the first Filipino act that started performing in the Philippines to perform onstage in the said festival.

"Spinning", It's All Smiles, and Blueboy Must Die In January 2020, Gomez announced that he was working on Samantha's TV, a mixtape, which took its name from the character played by Scarlett Johansson in Her; While there, he aborted the mixtape, and started afresh; which charted at No. 94 on the UK Singles Chart in March 2021; and the month after that, he and Chase Atlantic featured on Elio's "Hurts 2 Hate Somebody", which appeared on her remix album, "Elio and Friends: The Remixes". Later that year, Daniel and BJ Burton coproduced Rome's album It's All Smiles, which he named ironically due to its sad lyrics, and which he promoted with a zine comprising photographs taken by Gomez. Later that month, he released "Brother", which was inspired by "Plantasia" by Mort Garson and Rachel McKibbens' "Letter From My Heart to My Brain", and in August 2023, he released "Deep Diving", a UK garage-inspired song also inspired by "Plantasia". On 8 September, he released the Kurisu-produced mixtape Blueboy Must Die, which had been delayed from 28 July 2023,

In February 2026, after not officially releasing music for three years, No Rome took to social media to confirm that he was at work on a second studio album. He shared an unreleased demo, 'Wut Am I Doin?', along with the update.

Critical reception It's All Smiles received mixed reviews, and varying genre classifications, earning one out of five stars from the Guardian and a 7.1 from Pitchfork. The Guardian argued that Gomez's self-proclaimed genre, "shoegaze R&B," presented contradictory ideas about the role of vocals: Shoegaze is a genre in which "singers sink in quicksands of guitar", while R&B is a genre often dependent on the quality of the vocalist, and noted that his choice "to foreground his thin, trebly voice and treat it with endless effects [... owed] more to hyperpop than anything else." They also described the album's "A Place Where Nobody Knows" and "Everything" as chillwave, and described the album as a "hyperpop headache". and a March 2022 edition of Out of Print'' noted that his influences spanned the Deftones, jungle producer Goldie, and the light art pioneers Jenny Holzer and Nam June Paik, and that his "ultimate musical hero" was Kim Gordon.

Singles "Dance with Me" / "United We Are" (2013) "Heaven" (2014) "Know U" (2015) "Seventeen" (2017) "Blue Jeans" (2017) "Do It Again" (2018) "Seventeen" (re-release, 2018) "Saint Laurent" (2018) "Cashmoney" (2019) "Pink" (2019) "Talk Nice" (2019) "Trust3000" (2019) "Hurry Home" (2020) "1:45AM" (2020) "Spinning" (2021) "When She Comes Around" (2021) "I Want U" (2021) "Brother" (2023) "Deep Diving" (2023)

Featured singles

"Hurts 2 Hate Somebody" (2021) "Shoegazing" (2023)