NEW ALBUM: The Grogans 'Find Me A Cloud' + Return to the UK + Europe
The Grogans release their fourth studio album Find Me A Cloud
+ Focus track 'Hey Ma'am'
+ Return to the UK and Europe for album tour
As The Grogans take off for their second tour across Europe and the UK for 2023, their fourth studio album Find Me A Cloud is finally landing. Out Friday 20 October via C.W. Records, the album is jam-packed with something for everyone amongst the garage, psyche and surf rock, Find Me A Cloud’s singles have seen the trio’s incendiary energy igniting the airwaves across Australia, with adds on Spotify’s All New Rock, New Music Friday AU & NZ, The Local List, Rock Out and Shoegaze Now playlists, bringing their authentic positivity to the masses.
Fresh off their largest show yet supporting Ocean Alley at Spark Arena in New Zealand and a Triple J "Like A Version" performance of The Kinks classic 'You Really Got Me', their debut at BIGSOUND 2023 and Yours and Owls Festival, the trio wind tours across Australia and New Zealand, and are now back in Europe and the UK for October and November to wrap what's been a busy and unforgettable 2023 for the band.
Find Me A Cloud was recorded by Jasper Jolley at Big Fridge Studio and unpacks layers of nostalgia through genre bridge building, a collection of material to "draw inspiration from the past whilst never trying to recreate it" says The Grogans. Breathing musical life into the salty waters and sun drenched summers of their surfside Peninsula home, the album brims with honest and relatable lyrics, while at times cryptic, and tracks that span from heavier rock n roll to slow and perpetual; something for everyone.
"Find Me A Cloud’ has felt a little different from other albums we've written in that we had an idea of where we wanted to take it. No concepts or themes but more of an auditive aesthetic that we all dived headfirst into" - The Grogans
Whether you’re looking for energetic drum fills fueling a dance liberation or their longtime love of surf punk, you’ll also find melodic riffs and lyrics preaching a message of self worth across the album, and in old school rock n roll track ‘Hey Ma’am’. "The lyrics describe a bad relationship where the man is expecting his partner to do things he’s perfectly capable of doing himself for him. And although the lyrics don’t get that far the story goes that she boots him out the door and lives her best life without him". Moments of country and western tinges, and throwbacks to sounds from earlier eras, join released singles ‘Nowhere To Be’, heralded by Rolling Stone Australia, ‘I’m Not Sure’, ‘I Cannot Read Your Mind’, and ‘Can’t Stand’, supported across Australian community radio including 4ZZZ, 2XX FM, PBS FM, 3RRR, Edge Radio, Radio Adelaide, and more, with tracks added to rotation on triple j, and air time on BBC Radio 1's Future Alternative, Amazing Radio and Rock Antenne.
Find Me A Cloud
1. Hey Ma’am
2. Overheat
3. I Cannot Read Your Mind
4. Lay Back
5. Heads In The Sand
6. Can’t Stand
7. I Need You
8. Nowhere To Be
9. Stay High
10. I’m Not Sure
11. Day Dreamed
With a humble and hardworking ethos matched only by their down to earth mentality in making music, The Grogans labour of love and genuine joy playing together has seen them performing backyard gigs on the Mornington Peninsula to supporting bands including Ocean Alley, WAVVES (US) Hockey Dad and The Chats, sharing festival line-ups with Franz Ferdinand, Los Bitchos and The Teskey Brothers, the trio have completed a plethora of headline Australian & New Zealand tours including sell-out shows at The Croxton (VIC), Crowbar (NSW), The Brightside (QLD), Lion Art’s Factory (SA), Badlands (WA), to name a few, appearing at festivals nationally and internationally including Yours & Owls (NSW), Wanderer Festival (NSW), NYE on the Hill (VIC), Dauwpop Festival (NL), London Calling (NL), Beast Of A Feast (NZ), NinchFest (VIC), and more.
Don’t miss your ticket to this new realm of The Grogans and get ready to rock out, whilst singing their catchy as-heck lyrics at the top of your lungs.
Find Me A Cloud Europe/UK Tour
18 October - The Pitcher - Dusseldorf, Germany
19-20 October - Left of the Dial Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
23 October - Lux - Hannover, Germany
24 October - Sankt Peter - Frankfurt, Germany
25 October - Club Stereo - Nuremberg, Germany
26 October - Kliff - Aarau, Switzerland
27 October - Gannet - Basel, Switzerland
29 October - La Fosse - Laval, France
31 October - Jokers Pub - Angers, France
2 November - Grenswerk - Venlo, Netherlands
3 November - Trix - Antwerp, Belgium
4 November - De Zwerver - Oostenende, Belgium
5 November - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands
6 November - Bodega - Nottingham, UK
8 November - Two Palms - London, UK
9 November - Rainbow - Birmingham, UK
10 November - Sidney and Matilda - Sheffield, UK
14 November - Bobiks - Newcastle, UK
15 November - Canvas 2 - Manchester, UK
Tickets via thegrogansband.com