Nod / Radio Giddy-up

Smells Like Records

Having chased after it for most of the decade, Nod has finally snuck up on and captured a sound all their own. Continuing in the vein of their Smells Like Records debut, Magenetic Anomaly, Nod's new batch of hyper-tremelo'd, post-garage goo sports Scrappy Joe's inspired, nostril-filtered yelps, let loose in the fractured, somnambulistic melody lines coming out of Tim Poland and Brian Shaffer's tight bass-drum pocket. Their combo of undulating grooves and dry-as-bones production acts as a magnifying glass for their crisp snare snaps, cymbal static, crusty guitar grease, and the rubber-bandiest bass this side of Bootsy. Nod get the trad stuff right (and use the right trad stuff), adding to the vocabulary with the expertise of gifted misappropriators * Kings of the Upstate NY Empire * This recording is so trippy, it'll turn your hair white  * Previous Smells Like album and self-released titles are sought after with significant alacrity by otherwise docile collectors

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