2011 highly recommended: Grooms - Prom

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

Grooms - Prom.

DAMN. Blown away on first listening and only getting better. This is in my top of the year list already. :rawk:

Ramenamen · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 3:39 am

Just looked up a review. Sounds up my alley. I'll have to check it out tomorrow.

bort · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:32 am

riyl?

Roach · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:39 pm **Posts:** 955

bort Wrote:

riyl?

6 rawks.

seafoam · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:11 am

I might have liked this at some point when I was a kid, but these days this is where I get off the shoegaze train and let the young ones at it.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

seafoam give it another chance! i'm all over this. i'm hearing bits of polvo, pond, maybe grizzly bear, hmm...it reminds me of other stuff, i'll try to think of it. varied tempos, some shoegaze, some post-rocky feel... love it.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

maybe some sebadoh in there...def 90s vibe, which i love.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

maybe some autolux too.

seafoam · **Posted:** Sat Aug 06, 2011 2:47 am

I confess I like the more smooth sheen melodic shoegaze [you sold me back to Lower Dens] I def hear the autolux et al, but I'm an old man now, my kids don't like it, drives the wife batty, too much confusion not enough melody, my only chances are headphones late night like now or driving while at work, but saint, I'll try again cuz I aint dead yet, i'ma fighter, still like to rock even if it'll buzz out my remaining hearing, and on a rare night drinking rum instead of that wine

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:33 pm

Link that's not filesonic or wupload?

harry · **Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:35 pm

seafoam Wrote:

I confess I like the more smooth sheen melodic shoegaze [you sold me back to Lower Dens]

Interesting.. I though my reaction to Grooms was similar to my response to Lower Dens... very listenable easy going music with a hard guitar edge suggested with delicious sonics. I really loved Lower Dens for the first 10 listens and then it didn' hold up. I predict the same for Grooms.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

so far, both are holding up for me.

harry · **Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2011 2:41 pm

saint Wrote:

so far, both are holding up for me.

Yeah, I should qualify.. it's relative. I thought with Lower Dens "wow, finally a music that completely satisfies me and sounds both classic and brand new." That is it was one of my favorite finds last year and seemed to come out from nowhere (which is what I love). I still llike it but it just sounds "good" not "watershed." After two listens I really love the spacious sound of Prom, and it sounds classic and new. It's definitely one of the more satisfying releases this year... so far.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:42 pm

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Link that's not filesonic or wupload?

Never mind. Got it.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Link that's not filesonic or wupload?

Never mind. Got it.

what say ye?

2011 highly recommended: Grooms - Prom

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