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Grooms
Also Playing: Lasco Stroud
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Sat Nov 28
7:30 pm
Grooms and Lasco Stroud at Project Lodge
Grooms spread on plenty of guitar noise with what at first sounds like carelessness, but never nose-dive into slack-wristed irony. Their first album since changing their name from The Muggabears, this year's Rejoicer, gradually reveals a grasp of tangled composition that has more to do with the half-hidden guitar wizardry of Polvo than the inspired amateurism of Pavement. Guitarist Travis Johnson and band pull off plenty of uneasy quiet moments between friendly needle-sprays of distorted melody, finding emotional weight and a little math-rock sophistication. Johnson's shaky harmonies with bassist Emily Ambruso coat these songs with a friendly element, but that doesn't soften Grooms' jarringly dense and volatile dynamics.
Project Lodge 817 E. Johnson St., Madison, WI
Grooms spread on plenty of guitar noise with what at first sounds like carelessness, but never nose-dive into slack-wristed irony. Their first album since changing their name from The Muggabears, this year's Rejoicer, gradually reveals a grasp of tangled composition that has more to do with the half-hidden guitar wizardry of Polvo than the inspired amateurism of Pavement. Guitarist Travis Johnson and band pull off plenty of uneasy quiet moments between friendly needle-sprays of distorted melody, finding emotional weight and a little math-rock sophistication. Johnson's shaky harmonies with bassist Emily Ambruso coat these songs with a friendly element, but that doesn't soften Grooms' jarringly dense and volatile dynamics.
Updated 06/15/2011
