Grasser - You're Welcome For Having Us

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Grasser is the Asbury Park-based recording project of producer/singer Dana Yurcisin, lyricist/percussionist Biff Swenson, and multi-instrumentalist Nick Gianatiempo. Contrary to a typical band formation/writing-process, the trio dig up voice memos and bounce ideas off one another, however disparate, and fuse them into something that feels simultaneously hyper-active and natural. Chamber pop arrangements. Fuzz-fucked and pedal-warped guitars. Shape-shifting and groovy rhythms. Acerbic wit and ridiculous one-liners. Beat switches. Studio trickery. It’s all part of the soup. Both bracingly modern and decidedly lived-in, their sound would be equally at home on a dance floor or a sweaty basement show. But for now, they’ll settle for your headphones.

You’re Welcome For Having Us, the band’s sophomore LP finds the band looking to the past to find a way forward. Childhood trauma, familial rifts and romantic trials and triumphs all come to a head atop their most stylistically diverse suite of songs yet. Heavier. Prettier. Grosser. While their debut Get Real, Quick! was a way for them to test their abilities making a cohesive, long-form statement as a group with vastly different tastes and approaches, You’re Welcome For Having Us is the sound of a band fully locked in and realizing their potential. Drawing from the brashness of nu-metal, the sensuality of R&B and the physicality of hip-hop and house, Grasser pile on so many ideas, textures and layers it’d be impossible to pick them out on first spin, rewarding repeat listens while still providing the immediate thrills you’d expect from any self-proclaimed pop outfit. It’s a maximalist, kaleidoscopic, and — most importantly — fun record with a contagious energy that’s evident right from jump. You’re welcome.