I was still quite unwell when The New Pornographers came to town. Great show even though I couldn't get close to the stage. Here's a few happy snaps on my woeful phone camera.
Hooray for Earth Vs. Twin Shadow - Place We Like
Yes I know, it's been far too long since NAS.com has been updated. This is all about to change though. Kicking off this happy moment we have taken delivery of one super cheerful track. Vs songs have always perplexed this NAS writer. They don't really mean much other than perhaps one party is dead so the other has taken liberties and messed with their sound. Maybe that's a charmed way of looking at it because the collaboration between Brooklyn bands Hooray for Earth and Twin Shadow produced such a super awesome track called, A Place We Like. I think haters of steel drums will find this one way too infectious to dislike. Part dance party and part philosophical recording question. With lines like, "I don't understand what makes it sound different on the tape." Kids who understand recording studio speak (side-chain anyone?) will enjoy the lyrics. I've decided that this track will be the theme to my Australian summer.
Hooray for Earth Vs. Twin Shadow - Place We Like via Living Ears
[Myspace - Twin Shadow] [Myspace - Hooray For Earth]
Radical Dads - Recklessness
Some days I look back at my childhood and wonder why my own father wasn't more of an awesome dude. Then again that has nothing to do with a band named Radical Dads. This Brooklyn trio happens to feature guitarist Robbie Guertin, who is better known for his exploits in Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Despite this link the band has a raw indie Lo-Fi grunge sound that blows CYHSY out of the water, They're currently preparing their first 7" single, Recklessness. You can also check out the video for Recklessness below, and there's more tunes on their Myspace page.
Cloud Nothings
Lo-Fi recordings seem to be the hip new things on the block. I guess there's a whole bunch of kids making music nowadays who've never even touched a cassette tape in their lives. This NAS writer used to own a Sony Walkman! Yes, that's how old I might be. But putting age aside, sometimes the lo-fi sound of a band in a basement on a cheap microphone work wonders. Cleveland's Cloud Nothings pretty much did that and have become interweb darlings because of it.
Dylan Baldi is the man who gave Clound Nothings their first breath of life. As mentioned, he recorded the band's first few tracks in his basement with just one cheap microphone. Hey Cool Kid was one of those first tracks, and it sounds like a basement affair. There's a certain charm to the track, but that charm can only take it so far. It would be more interesting to see how Cloud Nothing's sound progresses once they get into a professional recording studio. At some point they'll need to decide how lo-fi they want to sound. Still, they're a catchy little band nonetheless that have oodles of fuzzy charm to go around. Check out some happy tracks on their myspace.
[Clound Nothings on Myspace]
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