Lockgroove announces that their long-awaited new record, Calm Right Down, is finally complete and ready for mass consumption. This, their 2nd full-length, expands tremendously upon the "space rock" formulae their debut "Sleeping on the Elephant Fog" put in place. Gone are the 20+ minute noise jams - replaced instead by far more concise and potent blasts of sound combined with beautifully crafted pop. The band underwent a metamorphasis of sorts during the 3+ years spent writing, recording, doubting, slacking, and generally hammering away at their vision of this album. Calm Right Down is the result of countless hours of work at Dented Head Studios, the home base of the SharkAttack! Music label collective. Additionally, Calm Right Down is an album for the first time entirely written, engineered, and produced by Lockgroove, and features guest appearances from a number of Boston's finest musicians.
LOCKGROOVE burst onto the Boston music scene with their outstanding debut EP "Rewired." Lockgroove floored everyone in their path, shattering eardrums and blowing minds in the process. Not content with the humdrum club scene in Boston, lockgroove teamed up with local musicians and video artists for a series of eclectic "happenings" dubbed "Deep Heaven." Soon bands from across the country and around the world such as Acid Mothers Temple, Bardo Pond, Brother JT, Lightning Bolt, and Kool Kieth were taking part in these Warholian multi-media gatherings. Lockgroove's critically acclaimed first ep, "Rewired," was recorded in 48 frantic hours and is a testament to the band's manic and unpredictable live shows. Before "Rewired" was even released, identical twin brothers Martin and Ryan Rex were already sequestered in their run-down-rat-infested basement with an 8 track machine recording demos for what would become their amazing debut full-length album(at 70 minutes we mean full-length) - "Sleeping on the Elephant Fog." The album's 12 seamlessly-intertwined songs channel everything from the psychedelia of Syd Barrett and Sonic Boom to the linear experimentation of Can and Eno to the raw power of the MC5 and The Velvet Underground, and present a unified musical experience.
"There's nothing like a band that can rock a club with both visceral power and improvisational intelligence, which is what the young band lockgroove has been all over town for the past year and a half. It has veered far from the path of predictability, and its energized, inventive music has frequently been compared to the likes of Spiritualized and Spaceman 3. But make no mistake, this act is a complete original." --Billboard.
"lockgroove's dense, full-on sound invites comparison to Brian Eno's "Music for Airports" -- as performed by a fighter jet squadron." --The Boston Globe
"Sonic alchemists of the highest order, lockgroove write some of the most elastic, ebullient pop songs since Galaxy 500 and Spaceman 3, only louder... In short, they're the most astounding band to emerge from Boston in quite some time." --The Boston Phoenix
"The band creates dense cosmic symphonies with layers of head feeding noise" --Spin
How to Get at the Band:
Lockgroove:
SharkAttack! Music:
P.O. Box 600-466
Newtonville, MA 02460
