An odd thing happened on the way to the festival: Ground Components seemed to lose themselves in their outsized ambitions. Playing at the Melbourne Laneway festival two Sundays earlier, the band’s careening approach to ol’ school R&B, soul and rock saw them become drunken heroes; at an event all...
After a busy summer that’s seen them shaking up Homebake, Big Day Out and Laneway Festival stages, as well as supporting Muse, Melbourne’s Ground Components get back in the van for an 18 date national tour in April and May. The dates coincide with the release of ‘Hands in the Air’, the second singl...
Ground Components are furious, but only in one sense of the word. Vocalist Joseph McGuigan spends most of Eye for a Brow, Tooth for Pick on the verge of tears, yelping spitefully at insipid rock stars (“On Your Living Room Floor”), conceited individualists (“Head in the Sand”), and the bleakness of ...