★★★★★
The blogosphere has become the litmus test for overall musical success. If one can survive the crowds of often over-opinionated, unpoliced online 21st century tastemakers then general consequence is; the public will agree. Grum has spent two years riding the blogs, throwing out consistently impressive remixes and demos like a Fordist production line...
- www.clashmusic.com
2010-10-12
★★★★★
British electropop is in a healthy place at the moment, and riding on the back of its coat tails is Grum, a young producer and vocalist schooled in classic rock and synth pop in Edinburgh.Perhaps inevitably that has led to comparisons with fellow Scots Mylo and Calvin Harris, both have shown an aptitude for updating the 1980s to the present day and adding an extra twist. Add to that the media's current obsession for all things 1980s, and what time could be better for him to make his mark...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
The much-quoted epithet "writing about music is like dancing about architecture", which may or may not have been first uttered by the late, great Frank Zappa, is never more applicable than when a scribe is presented with a dance record. The sole intention of Grum, aka Leeds-based Scot Graeme Shepherd, is to fill a club with revelry, not to flick the switches of the critical consignetti. His music is a gateway to release for the everyman, not the preserve of the muso...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-05-27
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