Grooms, Magistrate Seeks Romance.

Having previously revealed the rather more contemplative, almost meditative Turn Your Body, Brooklyn trio Grooms exhibit a totally disparate, if equivalently compelling side to themselves – and so too to their forthcoming Exit Index full-length – on Magistrate Seeks Romance. Built about Jay Heiselmann’s robust, somewhat motorik bass line and boosted throughout by Steve Levine’s upbeat, crashing splashes, it’s stoner-rock, but of the exhilarated (rather than oppressive, paranoiac) kind. And it’s all kinds of absorbing, basically…

Exit Index is available from October 20th via Western Vinyl.