Yeah, this band is growing on me like weeds, very cool stuff. I usually browse through a ton of crap to find what I'm going to check out next, and NLNH is it! I dig it, like Paul McCartney digs a pony! I like "An Unproven Theorum," it's very original.
is it fair to review a band that you know? if they make music this good, who cares? the influences are obvious--grandaddy, the flaming lips and xtc--but they delivery with a unique, warm, meticulous, lo-fi sound. i recommend "rest assured," "i know how you got so old" and "the pace of sound".
I picked up this album a few years ago at a small Record store in New Paltz, NY. This record got better with every listen. It has a variety of influences-- from Modest Mouse to Radiohead and a number of other sounds one might hear in the textual layers of the record. Everyone I have shared this record with has enjoyed it and ended up raving about it. It is one of those albums that needs to be heard all the way through to really enjoy fully. It has a wonderful sequencing that, like each song, unfolds more and more as you hear it.
The album seemed a bit plain to me at first but it's quickly sticking and I really like it. The song that had sold me from the beginning is An Unproven Threorem. The build-up is just gorgeous - the best song I head in quite a while (I heard a lot of great albums but no single song that impressed me this much).
