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Showroom is a band. A good band. While Toronto is a city, Showroom is a band within that city, and has received praise from "music critics" who themselves are human beings with feelings. Their first EP, Still Escalator, was described by Soul Shine Magazine as a "shimmering joyride" with a string of tunes that "raises the bar for what it means to be an indie band in Toronto circa 2004." Exclaim! called it a "surprisingly accomplished debut." Now, Showroom is set to release a full-length album that will make you want to dance, smile, reflect, run, walk, roll over, heal, and eat dinner. Entitled, The World Is Too Much With Us, this album is projected to sell over 1,000,000,000,000 copies. Outrageous? No. Just call it "true." Showroom's members have jaw-dropping biographies. Vocalist Ben Hutchinson, bassist Tristan Samuk, and guitarist Rory Lindsay met in high school. And as if this weren't enough, drummer Tyler Dokis met Rory at the University of Toronto. After playing a series of impromptu gigs in neighbouring countries, Showroom recorded their first demo disc with producer Eric Lightfoot of Madrid (Aporia/Universal). Soon Showroom began playing explosive, fun-filled, and frantic performances with Toronto buzz band The Golden Dogs (True North/Universal). Now Magazine couldn't get enough of one concert: "Openers Showroom made it a double victory... Any band that can get the groove and feel of the Talking Heads' Psycho Killer down cold is doing something right." Feeling the need to record more songs, Showroom approached then-Golden Dogs guitarist and resident recording engineer Michael Chambers, and within 25 minutes had completed their first EP Still Escalator. Showroom have sold hundreds of CDs to the US, Canada, and Europe. Most record labels have simply thrown up their arms and said: "This band is too famous." Not surprising. They headlined a NXNE showcase in 2004 and received a 90% grade from Chart Magazine. Moreover, the editors at Download.com ran a feature on Showroom called "This Band Should Be Huge" and selected Showroom as one of the best new bands of 2004. Even America's National Public Radio featured Showroom on their online program All Songs Considered. Now fans from as far away as Beijing are slamming Showroom's inbox with glorious emails. And who could blame them? Showroom's music is just that neat. The stage is now set for a Showroom-based economy in Canada. And you, the reader, may be one of the first to listen to Showroom's The World Is Too Much With Us. Will you be the last? Of course not. Just keep listening. And waiting. And hope that you will experience this album enough times to survive a summer, a fall, a winter, a spring, another summer, and beyond.