Grumbeaux share single ‘Johnny 99’

“Really exceptional… exalted and confident… But it’s not only how the  music sounds that moved me. It’s the ache of the thing… music that comes  from an annihilation of self, in the past, in the present, and forever.” —Rick Moody, Salmagundi magazine 

Grumbeaux is what you ate for dinner last night; it’s what stuck to your  mother’s sole in the parking lot of Kohl’s; it’s your grandfather’s look when  his false teeth pop out; it’s the elephant in the room and the lion that keeps  you awake at night. 

A kind of culinary grab-bag, as the name suggests. A mixture of old folk inflected material that sounds punk, prog, garage, goth and rock, all at once. Deranged? Perhaps, but in the best possible sense, for this music throws pre conceived notions into confusion while underscoring the best ideas from those genres. 

What’s next for Grumbeaux? Collecting new material by sitting in various  postures in varied locales, sniffing at the regional molecules, looking over  shoulders for browbeating weather and monitoring all frequencies for signs  of the message. 

Life is Grumbeaux, is it not? And we’re all in it. The question is, whose  spoon comes a-fetching?