Graeme Shepherd, the 24 year old electro wizz kid otherwise known as
Grum must be cursing the day Calvin Harris was born, there hasn’t been a case of thunder stealing this big since the days of Zeus and Thor. To the casual listener Grum’s catchy brand of electro-house music sounds more than a bit similar to that of Harris’ not that Grum seems to be paying to much notice with his motto being “More hedonism, less worrying”. You really do get the sense of that when listening to Grum’s music which is overriding euphoric throughout his debut album ‘Heartbeats’.
The album starts with ‘Through the Night’, a house track which has ‘future club banger’ written all over, sure Grum’s brand of 80s influenced house music doesn’t really add anything particularly new to the genre but the Boys of Summer- style vocals and synth breakdown on this track are hard not to like.
If next track ‘Can’t Shake This Feeling’ came on the funk radio station whilst playing GTA Vice City you wouldn’t bat an eyelid, it’s like a modern, better version of Oliver Cheatham’s ‘Get Down Saturday Night’. The rest of the album follows a familiar pattern drawing on the likes of electro music legends like Moroder (‘Runaway’ , Kraftwerk (‘Power’) and Daft Punk ‘Cybernetics’). There are entertaining moments on this album like the uplifting house track ‘Heartbeats’ with it’s bleepy synths lines and the bouncey groove of ‘Turn It Up’ but there aren’t really enough original elements to separate Grum’s sounds from the legions of other people pedalling similar electro-house grooves. Still stick this album on it’s hard not want to dance.
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