Sunset Room’s groove-savvy buzz is a trip through everything you love about music– past and present. It’s a mix of sound, soul, beat and mood that its members Catie Moore, James Flores and Tim Rumbaugh bring to every performance. The band was formed in 1997 by Flores and Rumbaugh in the style of English trip-hop groups. The group quickly evolved into something distinctly its own when Moore joined the band. What the members quickly found out was that when their influence of past artists such as Sarah Vaughn, Aretha Franklin and Pink Floyd married their modern influences such as PJ Harvey, Lamb and St. Germain, they couldn’t be held within the constraints of trip hop anymore. Sunset Room is creating something entirely different.The band paints a picture of a different form, making you feel as if you've discovered a style that you can call your own. It’s organic, but the texture of technology pushes at you, moves around you, wraps you. Moore’s smooth, yet penetrating voice takes you on an unexpected journey. Shear energy and total control breaking free into an exhilarating scat, melding into a seductive croon of grit and grace. In and around these vocal melodies lives an eclectic array of loops, beats and synthesis that completes the story told by each song. Or as someone was overheard to say at a Sunset Room show, "their vibe is so thick, it completely takes you over and rips you in half."