At the Natural History Museum:

Groom’s new mini-album At the Natural History Museum is an exploration of death filtered through six fictional characters’ observations, meandering through themes of despair, questions on eternity, nightmares, suicide, loneliness, regret, and final acceptance—all performed with disarming cheerfulness and black humour in Groom’s signature pop/folk style.

Clocking in at just over half an hour, the lyrics set forth six vignettes, each featuring a different character clinging to life or else attending to its inevitable slipping-away: the protagonist who experiences waking nightmares of vampires and the walking dead in Mythical Creatures; the lovers’ suicide pact in Let’s Die Together; the failed bedroom troubadour in Death of a Songwriter; and the title track in which a man contemplates his failing marriage and fading mortality: without love, he asks, can life ever be preserved?

Written by Michael Stevens, the record was performed by Groom and produced by Chicago musician/artist, Barry Phipps, with engineering duties handled by Ryan Neuschafer (Chicago) and Nicky Coghlan (Dublin).

MP3'S:

letsdietogether.mp3