Photo by Roxanne Lange
Bedroom Problems is Maria, Mary Beth, Matt, and Roxy. What originally began as the home recording project of Maria in the summer of 2010 has since blossomed into a full-blown band. Bedroom Problems draws sonic inspiration from the catalogs of Homestead and Harriet Records. They have received favorable reviews from their friends, and from a drunken fraternity dude who described the band as "really playing to play" before going outside to vomit. In April 2012, Bedroom Problems released a new digital single ("Oceans/Obligated") via Bandcamp.
A few songs reminded me heavily of Liz Phair‘s Exile in Guyville...
- Matthew Berlyant, The Big Takeover (November 20, 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)
