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Grooms
- Record Label: Western Vinyl Records
- Release Date: Feb 17, 2015
- Summary: The fourth full-length release for the Brooklyn indie rock band led by Travis Johnson was the last album recorded at Brooklyn's Death by Audio studio.
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- Record Label: Western Vinyl Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Experimental Rock, Shoegaze
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Mar 2, 2015Truly a bold step forward for the band, the album takes Grooms to their next plateau the same way Daydream Nation proved Sonic Youth's breakthrough almost 30 years earlier.
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Mar 2, 2015They’ve found a way to wedge different sonic elements together, creating an assemblage of oft-quoted elements that feels fresh and vital even when its tone turns elegiac.
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Mar 2, 2015If not all its experiments yield consistently entrancing results, Comb the Feelings is the sound of Grooms basking in the first radiant glimpse of a future that, not too long ago, it didn’t think it’d live long enough to see.
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Mar 2, 2015Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair shows Grooms delivering an ambitious album where simple familiarity would have sufficed.
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UncutMar 30, 2015The washed out pastel shades and electronic frills on the likes of "Doctor M" and "Cross Off" help ensure that any latent familiarity with Johnson's influences is outweighed by reverberant production reminiscent of Broadcast's spooky psychedelia. [May 2015, p.73]
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Mar 2, 2015Although Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair has a fairly distinct color scheme, it deviates enough to resist the pastel end of the indie rock rainbow.
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Q MagazineApr 13, 2015All in all, it makes for a promising re-start. [May 2015, p.106]
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