Cambridge’s Grieving returned at the start of the year with the new single “Tarpaulin” paired to the announcement of their debut album, “Everything Goes Right, All At Once”. A short run of vinyl for the record, hand numbered by the band, went on to sell out on pre-order within 48 hours. Last week, Grieving shared another new track, “Puritans (The Weight)”, 3:02 minutes of tightly-wound post-hardcore and today, ahead of the album release this Friday, the band show another side to their sound with the widescreen indie-punk and power-pop of “Wiseau”.
Named after the enigmatic director Tommy Wiseau, the song’s last two minutes in particular deliver the band’s most direct pop moments yet.
Grieving are a band whose music is not as immediately morbid as their name might suggest. With a nod towards the needling DC hardcore of classic Dischord, early emo and to anthemic late 90’s and early 00’s indie-rock and punk, their debut EP, released pre-pandemic, saw support from the likes of Stereogum, Alt Press, The FADER, DIY and Upset. 4 of those 5 songs also went on to see plays at either BBC Radio 1 or 6 through Huw Stephens, Dan P Carter and Tom Ravenscroft.
Two of these, “Ownership”, which received daytime radio play on 6 Music, and the live favourite “My Friend, The Ghost” also make their long-awaited debut record, announced today.
After an acclaimed 7″ split on Venn Records with Johnny Foreigner side project Yr Poetry, Other Half and Yarraman, the band have announced their debut album “Everything Goes Right, All At Once”, the title a positive play on a quote from the Wiseau-directed The Room where – instead – all at once, everything goes wrong.
The 11 song LP lands March 15th on By The Time It Gets Dark (pre-order HERE) and was recorded in part by Matty Moon (Lonely The Brave, Spielbergs) locally at Half Ton Studios and with Bob Cooper (The Orielles, Nai Harvest, Self Defense Family) at his Crooked Rain Studios in Leeds.
The full album delivers insistent hooks and off-kilter power in equal measure – aggressive, unpredictable and full of sharp turns, the band present a full-length paean to the wealth of music that birthed them.
LISTEN TO “WISEAU” HERE | ON SPOTIFY
LISTEN TO “TARPAULIN” HERE | ON SPOTIFY
Grieving
Everything Goes Right, All At Once
Out March 15th on By The Time It Gets Dark
Pre-Order HERE
- Brian Emo
- 10 x Michelangelo
- Pristine
- My Friend, The Ghost
- Tarpaulin
- Wiseau
- Start Young
- Ownership
- Puritans (The Weight)
- The World Still Turns
- Old Wives
Grieving online:
www.facebook.com/grievingband
www.twitter.com/grievingband
grievingband.bandcamp.com
