Glory Glory Man United

Comprised of music school ne’er-do-wells Adam Warren (vocals, guitar), Gavin Maclean (bass, vocals) and Ryan Brown (drums, vocals), Glory Glory Man United (GGMU) released their self-titled demo in 2007. The effort grabbed the attention of Jon Epworth (The Dean Malenkos, The Improvements), who went on to produce the band’s 2008 EP, Friends of the Seen (From Here to There Records).

Balancing daring instrumentation with warm melodies, the album charted on campus radio stations throughout the Maritimes and Ontario. The Coast described it as, “what would happen if Q and Not U, circa 1999, covered Thrush Hermit’s Smart Bomb EP.” Herohill said the EP, “Strikes the right balance between heavy and melodic to have me listening to it repeatedly for days.”

GGMU recently finished recording its upcoming full-length debut, Zombies!!! (July 13, 2010, Out Of Sound Records). While the band produced and recorded the LP themselves, it was mixed by renowned producer and Heavy Blinkers frontman, Andrew Watt (who the group acted as a backing band for on his solo debut, First Day of Summer Life ). The resulting work captures a more expansive and sonically ambitious GGMU. While Zombies!!! takes the band on a progressive path, they still manage to maintain the concise pop sensibility that made their early work so memorable. Starting with the aggressive and hook ridden “Pop Song Automaton,” the album reveals its depth as it progresses through the somber “Mountain Town” and onto the sprawling closer, “Fish in the Water.”

MP3 “Pop Song Automaton” from Zombies!!!:
http://pigeonrow.com/GGMU_PopSongAutomaton.mp3

High-Res Photo of Glory Glory Man United:
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