snakybus
Well-Known Member
Groom will launch its new album "At the Natural History Museum" on April 24th, 2009, on Tight Ship Records here and in the US.
It'll be available on iTunes as well as local outlets such as Tower, Road, Freebird Secret Book and Record Store, and others, but you can get a free copy if you come to the launch!
The launch is upstairs in Whelan's. Our old buddy Neosupervital will also play. See mentions of this gig here and here (thanks Unicron and SweetOblivion!)
Here is the "official" announcement.
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.
It'll be available on iTunes as well as local outlets such as Tower, Road, Freebird Secret Book and Record Store, and others, but you can get a free copy if you come to the launch!
The launch is upstairs in Whelan's. Our old buddy Neosupervital will also play. See mentions of this gig here and here (thanks Unicron and SweetOblivion!)
Here is the "official" announcement.
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.
