Simon Doom

Simon Doom may be the grunge-meets-garage-meets-psych rock and roll task of Simon O’Connor, who’s also known for his use Kuroma and Amazing Baby. O’Connor started focusing on Simon Doom — the name he followed while playing his teenage punk music group Thulsa Doom — in 2014, when he noticed the tracks he was composing wouldn’t sound nearly as good with his various other projects. To greatly help flesh out the music, he teamed up with a set of longtime close friends: Guitarist William Flynn (also of Sleepers Function, and previously of St. Vincent) and bassist Jim Carroll (also of Natural Love, Wish Conspiracy, and Suicide Document), whom O’Connor fulfilled at electric guitar camp if they had been teenagers. Apse drummer Brandon Collins and O’Connor’s Kuroma bandmate and MGMT collaborator Will Berman fleshed out the lineup, and Simon Doom started playing displays in past due 2014. The music group went in to the studio room early in 2015 for distinct periods with MGMT’s Ben Goldwasser as well as the Substitutes’ Tommy Stinson that led to that year’s Simon Doom EP. Later that season, O’Connor’s wife provided birth with their boy, motivating him to place additional time and energy in to the music group while he still got period. The Negotiate using the Monkey found its way to 2016, as well as the track “Roseate” was presented in the film Frank & Lola. To record 2017’s full-length Babyman, O’Connor and organization caused MGMT’s Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser aswell as Enthusiasm Pit’s Ayad Al Adhamy, Anni Rossi, and Tame Impala’s Cameron Avery.