Grouplove Biography

When the members of Grouplove met it was like a dream. The setting was a remote artist colony on the exotic mysterious Greek island of Crete. Drummer/producer Ryan Rabin and his childhood friend and former bandmate guitarist Andrew Wessen came from California guitarist Christian Zucconi and keyboarist Hannah Hooper traveled from New York and bassist Sean Gadd was the lone Brit. Each member went to Greece for their own independent reasons but over time they gravitated towards each other and discovered the sound that unified them: a merging of richly narrated intricate songs with anthemic classic pop production. It took the band the better part of a year to reunite after they left the island but as they prepare to release their debut album Never Trust A Happy Song they’re starting to realize what began as a fantasy has now become very real.
The story begins in the grimy grey urbanscape of New York City. Hannah was a painter living in a tiny apartment in Chinatown. Christian was living in Brooklyn realizing the band he’d been in for several years was coming to its natural end. Forty-eight hours after they met the couple decided to abandon the going-nowhere struggle of city life for the idyllic restfulness of Greece. “When we first got there we didn’t know what to make of it” Christian remembers laughing. “We were sharing a single bed and there was no real shower. It took a few days to adjust.” They soon settled into a rhythm – Christian wrote songs and Hannah painted but eventually they started mingling with the other residents. “To begin with we just sat around on the beach or in caves playing each other songs” Sean recalls. “I thought Christian and Hannah were very eccentric and very artistic. I liked their style. And right away we were all very supportive of each other’s music and really enjoyed being together. That was the beginning of Grouplove we just didn’t know it then.”

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