"please stick around and I'll try not to grind you down..."
The exquisitely constructed, brilliantly caustic "greasy thumbs", by the Salford (UK) based lowercased alt rock band groan room, manages to blend pommeling grunge tones with bending melancholy indie rock that you will want to wrap yourself into. Now depending on your mental state and relationship status you might find yourself head banging with a good drink or maybe lying in the fetal position or lying flat on your back staring at the ceiling in deep thought.
I love everything about this. The big yet sparse sound, the ringing bass and potent drums that feel so sonically textured, the pearly picking fairly clean electric guitars that turn into monstrous fuzz laden walls of sound, all the while the vox detailing a relationship rotting slowly from the inside out. The vocal aesthetic is biting but also (maybe) saturated in the self loathing of fucking up something that might of blossomed but maybe wasn't watered enough.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.instagram.com/groan.room/
https://soundcloud.com/user-907074984
https://open.spotify.com/track/4qX5KUQI5fWABWOLsFUo0e
https://www.facebook.com/Groan-room-100729004956865
groan room’s ear-splitting, raucous and hook-heavy sound is inspired by the transatlantic 90s - grunge and brit-pop with a healthy splash of slacker-rock thrown in for good measure. The Salford-based four-piece of seasoned musicians cut their teeth on the North West’s band scene before getting into the practice room together. the songs are full of self-deprecation and a tongue-in-cheek apathy towards life and some of the terrible curveballs it throws us. That unsettling angst thrown up by your mid-late twenties is the driving force behind the lyrics, and is further audible in the screeching and groaning of distorted guitars and the furious energy pumped out by the band’s accomplished rhythm section. In March 2020, through an overwhelming act of kindness, groan room went to the iconic Abbey Road Studios to record their debut, cacophonous, three-track EP.
We get by with a little help from our friends
groan room, Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock, post punk, UK, "Greasy thumbs", grunge tones, emo tones, heavy, lead guitar melodies, evocative lyrics, passionate vox,
The words spell out what we have all felt. A love song in decay with the refrain "cuz I'd give a 1000 fucks what you'd think, just thought you ought to know..." is gut open candid with glimpses of the numbness that can occur when mornings don't feel full of sunshine. There is talk of the stench being cleaned up and crushed hope, "we passed countless families that I dreamed we'd be, planting lemon trees for a cat to climb in, have a little yard...". The phraseology is wonderfully poetic but sad with tidbits that sting "we turned the car around" and "launched into a meandering march" and "I remember feeling small but with you never alone". Amid the sheer power there are such lovely musical shapes especially in the emotional gripping, heavy lead guitar work. To call this sort of emo feels wrong because it does not sound whiney but it is massively emotional. A broken love song.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.instagram.com/groan.room/
https://soundcloud.com/user-907074984
https://open.spotify.com/track/4qX5KUQI5fWABWOLsFUo0e
https://www.facebook.com/Groan-room-100729004956865
groan room’s ear-splitting, raucous and hook-heavy sound is inspired by the transatlantic 90s - grunge and brit-pop with a healthy splash of slacker-rock thrown in for good measure. The Salford-based four-piece of seasoned musicians cut their teeth on the North West’s band scene before getting into the practice room together. the songs are full of self-deprecation and a tongue-in-cheek apathy towards life and some of the terrible curveballs it throws us. That unsettling angst thrown up by your mid-late twenties is the driving force behind the lyrics, and is further audible in the screeching and groaning of distorted guitars and the furious energy pumped out by the band’s accomplished rhythm section. In March 2020, through an overwhelming act of kindness, groan room went to the iconic Abbey Road Studios to record their debut, cacophonous, three-track EP.
We get by with a little help from our friends
groan room, Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock, post punk, UK, "Greasy thumbs", grunge tones, emo tones, heavy, lead guitar melodies, evocative lyrics, passionate vox,
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