Gross Magic

Brighton, England's Sam McGarrigle was just 20 years old when he began recording lo-fi fuzz pop songs as Gross Magic in early 2011. From the strength of early online demos, much attention was flung at Gross Magic, critically praised by some as the brightest possible continuation of the lo-fi revivalism and '90s indie nostalgia championed by bands like Wavves and Yuck just years earlier. The early phase of Gross Magic's songwriting fell into a decidedly bedroom pop zone, gathering across-the-board comparisons to Nirvana, Mellow Gold-era Beck, and most often some sort of four-tr...