Nod

***Like the hype sticker reads, Nod is somehow loose and tight simultaneously, both together and shambly in the same breath, knees-a-shakin’. Like the hand-made replicas of the band, photographs featured on the back of the jacket and insert, these songs seem to be yearning for an actual, hand-made, in-the-flesh, reality, moving away from technologies and screens (and AI!).

Like a combination of the Velvet Underground and the Strapping Fieldhands. Hooky riffs and vocals, with a groove and warble that makes you shake your head (and butt). Also having a slight feeling of 90’s slack-rock, but with bits here and there reminiscent of an older era, the kind riding in big cars on hot days without air conditioning.

A collective yearning for days away from the day job, getting on the road, floating down the river, just anywhere but the desk, the screen, the machine.