Grizfolk - Waking Up The Giants (2016)

Grizfolk's debut album "Waking Up The Giants" delivers an arena ready sound from a wide range of musical & geographical backgrounds-Textured with graceful melodies, sprawling guitar & lush but edgy electronics. The album includes Alt-Rock Hit, "Troublemaker". Roth and Eriksson soon teamed up to write songs for a project, and discovered they were musically simpatico. Eriksson introduced Roth to Sebastian Fritze, a fellow Swede making music in America, and in 2013 the three joined forces to form a band that would combine Roth's love of Americana with Eriksson and Fritze's savvy with electronic pop. The group was originally called Griz Adams (after Grizzly Adams, a rugged outdoorsman in a popular American television series of the '70s), but in time the name was shortened to Grizfolk. Expanding to a quintet with the addition of Brendan Willing James on guitar and vocals and Roth's old bandmate Bill Delia on drums, Grizfolk landed their first break when the song "Vagabonds," featuring a guest appearance by Nikola Bedingfield, began getting airplay in the Los Angeles market after being released as part of a digital-only EP, Indian Summer. Soon Virgin Records signed the group to a deal; Grizfolk's first single for Virgin, "The Struggle," appeared in December 2013, and a four-song EP, From the Spark, followed in March 2014. Grizfolk also got a major career boost when their song "Way Back When" was used as part of the soundtrack to the hit animated film Mr. Peabody and Sherman. Preceded by the single "Troublemaker," Grizfolk delivered their full-length debut, Waking Up the Giants, in January 2016.

TRACKLIST

01. Into The Barrens
02. Troublemaker
03. Hymnals
04. The Struggle
05. Bob Marley
06. Waking Up The Giants
07. Waiting For You
08. Vagabonds
09. Bounty On My Head
10. Cosmic Angel
11. Bohemian Bird
12. Wide Awake