Groom launch new album, upstairs Whelan's, Friday April 24th 2009

snakybus

Groom will launch its new album "At the Natural History Museum" upstairs in Whelan's on April 24th, 2009, on Tight Ship Records here and in the US.

This record will be available on iTunes as well as local outlets Tower Records, Road Records and the Freebird Secret Book and Record Store. But you can get a free copy if you come to the launch. For those who want to buy tickets, they are on sale via the WaV ticketbox office, Camden Row (Lo-call 1890 200 078).

Doors: 8 PM
Price: 10 euros, includes a free CD

Neosupervital will also play.

Here's what just some reviews have said about this record:

“…songs that sound like they were plucked from the bosom of the early '90s indiepop scene… Combined with Mike Stevens' sometimes-fragile vocals and wonderfully wry, occasionally poignant lyrics, there's lots for fans of wordy, intelligent indie-pop to like here.” – Lauren Murphy, Entertainment.ie

“…a truly wonderful band…charming, beautiful pop songs…” – Viva Indie Rock

“The title track from their forthcoming album 'At the Natural History Museum', an epic nine minutes long, is a nailed on curio with its mix of spacey intro merging into a bucolic Tyrannosaurus Rex (i.e. when T-Rex were folkies) dittie before culminating in a barrage of grade A riffage.” – Artrocker/The Devil Has the Best Tuna

“…they offer up something sadly missing on the Dublin scene….I could listen to it all day in fact.” – Mp3hugger

“Stevens's vocal stylings and, indeed, lyrics, are best described as the result of Neil Young and Kate Bush's lovechild snorting the ashes of Elliott Smith” – Key Notes

“…an impressive collection of catch-driven, guitar based pop songs.” – Milk Milk Lemonade

“Fans of Bedhead and Galaxie 500 will certainly appreciate Groom's sound.” - Sweet Oblivion

Groom
At the Natural History Museum

An indie record about love and death…but mostly death.

Groom’s new mini-album At the Natural History Museum is a pop record about death, filtered through the observations of six fictional characters. It explores themes of despair, questions on eternity, nightmares, suicide, loneliness, regret, and final acceptance—all performed with disarming cheerfulness and black humour in Groom’s signature pastoral pop style.

Six musical vignettes clock in at just over half an hour, each featuring a different protagonist clinging to life or else attending to its inevitable slipping-away: the character who experiences waking nightmares of vampires and the walking dead in Mythical Creatures; the lovers’ suicide pact in Let’s Die Together; the failed bedroom troubadour in Death of a Songwriter; and the title track in which a man contemplates his failing marriage and fading mortality.

Written by Michael Stevens, the record was performed by Groom and produced by Chicago musician/artist, Barry Phipps, with engineering duties handled by Ryan Neuschafer (Chicago) and Nicky Coghlan (Dublin).

At the Natural History Museum is out on Tight Ship Records on April 24th, 2009.

snakybus

This is on tonight. Doors at 8.30.