Search - Nod :: Radio Giddy-Up

Having chased after it for most of the decade, Nod has now snuck up on a sound utterly all their own. Continuing in the vein of their SLR debut, Magnetic Anomaly, is Nods new batch of too-tremoloed post-garage goo - Radio Giddy-up. Sporting the inspired, nostril-filtered yelps of Scrappy Joe, loosed in fractured somnabulistic melody lines that somehow find their way perfectly into the tight bass/drum pocket provided by Tim Poland and Brian Shaffer, respectively, the undulating grooves resemble early Talking Heads in that you simply cant believe folks this white manage to get this funky. The dry as bones production magnifies the crisp snare snaps, cymbal static, crusty guitar grease, and the rubber band-est bass this side of Bootsy. Moments like the single-string Verlaine-on-ludes riffage of Love Is On Fire, the infectious gang vocal coda of For Me For, the vaccum-sealed unison stutters of New One, and the Beefheartian bramble of Beefy, make the best case for the the bands uncanny knack for assimilating and expanding on whats come before. The performances sound captured rather than wrought; the songs reveal themselves to the listener in the same way they mustve to the band. Getting the trad. stuff right (and using the right trad. stuff), yet also adding to the vocabulary in ways only an inspired misappropriation can. Radio Giddy-Up is the sound of a band on top of their sound.