Bedroom Problems

This is what we sound like.

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Bedroom Problems began as the lo-fi home recording project of Maria T. Taking equal amounts of inspiration from Anne Lamott's Bird By Bird and the Doris Day/Rock Hudson classic Pillow Talk (the band's name refers to scene dialogue in the film), Maria set off on a small project to write and compose spontaneous songs on her Garageband and guitar set-up.

After recording and releasing 2010's Six Songs EP, Maria joined up with Adam and Josh from A Sunny Day In Glasgow, and Mary Beth of April Disaster. What were once reverb-drenched humorous takes on being single in one's thirties found new lives in this configuration, re-emerging as loud, powerful rock tunes evocative of bands found on the Homestead and Harriet record labels.

Bedroom Problems are in the process of recording a new EP, to be released in early 2012.

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Only the nice words.

Do you like the Shop Assistants, the Chubbies, self-deprecation, DIY, etc.? Your new fave band is Bedroom Problems
– Douglas Wolk (January 4, 2011)

"At the intersection of Vanity 6, Salem 66 and Davila 666."
- Jon Solomon, WPRB

If Saturday really is the end of the world, Sara Sherr's show at Tritone seems like a swell place to take it in. [...] But it's the first show of Bedroom Problems — featuring Maria Tessa Sciarrino, the WPRB DJ/Her Jazz blogger with whom Sherr founded Sugar Town and ran Plain Parade booking — that's piqued my curiosity. Her agenda is bedroom pop (or rather basement pop, as that's where she started recording it solo) of the highest, smartest order. With that, Sciarrino has a taut and merry team of able practitioners from A Sunny Day in Glasgow, This Radiant Boy and April Disaster on her side. If Bedroom Problems is as blunt as Sciarrino's writing, things should be interesting. Don't get left behind.
– A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia City Paper (May 19, 2011)

Bedroom Problems, a new-ish local outfit, kicked off their set with “At Least Counting is Easy,” a reserved but angsty anthem about the downsides of singledom. The quasi punk-esque outro brings to mind a hybrid of Kleenex and Yellow Fever. Lead vocalist Maria Sciarrino’s lyrics are emotively in-tune with the fundamental sentiments of mumblecore features while her band’s instrumentation falls within the forever present parentheses of moody lo-fi. Onstage, Sciarrino’s diction feels confessional, sincere. Sharing details about her record collection, new dog, new job, and dreams, Sciarrino and her bandmates’ onstage presence is as genuine as their songs. Perhaps Bedroom Problems is a hopeful foreshadowing of an uprising of more femme-fronted lo-fi in the City of Brotherly Love.
– The Deli Magazine, Philadelphia (August 24, 2011)

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