***With all thanks to GOD?, DAVID NOVICK has cycled back around for his second album release in less than a year. The reason for this rush-release? It’s AWESOME! Your Sister’s Hand stands distinctly from his debut, bringing the deep-country campfire folk vibe in from the great out-of-doors, where the shape of the sound is more defined—more pronounced, forward and colorful in arrangement, all of which allows the songs to shine brighter. In the water running in the creek speak all the voices of the world, yet it requires a certain kind of ear to hear them. Your Sister’s Hand was recorded in a room in San Francisco, but manages to convey a message from way out there in the pasture, which means David’s ability to conjure atmospherically is growing. Endlessly falling in love with a crumbling world, David’s songs reach towards the sight of eternity, but the textures of electric and acoustic guitars add contrast as they sooth and bristle next to each other and somehow opening the vista ever wider. Drums and vocal harmonies (either by David or CLAIRE PLUMB) leave ghostly thumbprints on the images. It’s a lonely sound; photographs of light pinned to the wall in an insolated room—but hardwood floors and songs bring life. A hallway party, groovin’ tea and whiskey. We get to dream again. Our friends are here, we are here, burgeoning.
LP $17.75
03/18/2014
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.1 rating from Pitchfork. GOD? Records re-presents the debut of DAVID NOVICK! His self-titled album is officially a reissue, though the original was pressed in an short edition, for only one hundred souls. David and his bandmates in SAN FRANCISCO WATER COOLER put it out as the third release on their Sun Sneeze Records, and the copies were sold or handed out at shows. The Novick solo sound captures the hissing water of youth, loosely hanging around the neck of “pop” in a braid twisted with folk and experimental and psychedelic artifacts that come on with a distinct aroma. If you’ve enjoyed hanging around the San Francisco Water Cooler, this here is a bit more lo-key than those songs. Busting out of the gate fleetly, like Lindsey Buckingham of the no-budget (and no-Nicks!) set, David Novick flashes through seven ambitiously built songs recorded in his Santa Cruz bedroom a few years ago, using Tascam four-track and eight-track cassette machines. In order to create the shifting moods of weird creepy beauty, and the bright and shade of the album, David used mostly acoustic guitars, some percussion, and his own vocals, augmented with touches of electric guitar, organ, trumpet, harmonica and synthesizer. David Novick isn’t long, but it’s at least twice as deep: a late night burner to watch the fire to, projected into space with your best friends. Breathe, and flip the side.
LP $19.75
10/15/2013