WOODEN NICKLE DEBUT RELEASE VIA BORROWDEER.COM JUNE 16TH
Freak-folk's over. Over and dead. Devendra's got big, then bigger, then moved onto other worlds. Nu-psychedelic folk doesn't feel so new anymore. What else? Oh yeah, indierock's become a joke. Country music's become a tool of the Red Staters. Crazy Horse, RIP. George Harrison, o'dead. This strange, raw, twisted, new century is a time of turmoil—and it's a time of change. Movements rage up boldly, then flicker out. Next Big Thing's go cold as corpses. Now from the stew and mess and multi-colored chaotic gumbo comes Wooden Nickle and their great new record, A Kick in Falling Away (Borrowdeer).
Recorded in Portland, Oregon but brought to life in Brooklyn's thriving experimental music scene (see: Castanets, Dirty Projectors, Phosphorescent, etc), A Kick in Falling Away is a new folk-country-electronic-psychedelia hybrid good enough for ol' Shaky himself, but more in line with crazy-horrible-beautiful life circa summer 2008.
Matthew Boney (vocals, lead guitar, piano), Jeff Simmons (vocals, guitar, laptop, stylo and xylophones), Chris Hutton (drums), Kyle Delamarter (laptop), and various wildly-talented friends/collaborators give us a blazing, white-hot, 12-track piece of American music; American like '70s Dylan (see: Street Legal), American like delta blues, like Big Star and Wilco and Tom Petty and the Boss himself.
But where Bruce and his E. Street boys go for the straight-up, W.N. go for the straight up with the crooked, the sideways swingin', and—sometimes—the totally effing cracked. This is avant-country, tripped-out folk, and weirdo ballads. It's anthems, but it's anthems set squarely in absurd-as-hell 2008. (If you catch some epic White Album vibe from this, you're not off base.)
A Kick in Falling Away is, above all, a pop record, but pop in the finest (weirdest) sense.
Behold the NEW psychedelic rock. Everything is over. Everything is old. Everything is broken. Wooden Nickle are the new guys. Behold the future. – Adam David
(liner notes)
Wooden Nickle
"A Kick in Falling Away"
Brewfest
Buzz Your Saw
Garden
Vintage
Out in the Maze
Wilcox
Edge
Love is Within Sight
Top8
Fight to find a Way
Patience
Matthew Boney (Vocals, Lead Guitar, Piano)
Jeff Simmons (Vocals, Guitar, Laptop, Stylo and Xylophones)
Chris Hutton (Drums)
Kyle Delamarter (Laptop)
Katie Griesar (is glue on Vintage and Garden)
Deigo Elizalde (plays Drums on Wilcox and Edge)
Ned Folkerth (plays Drums on Edge)
Scott Cohen (Shakers on Edge)
Produced by Wooden Nickle
Recorded & Engineered in Portland, Oregon:
Sam Schauer @ the Eurocar Loft December 2006
Jeff Stuart Saltzman @ Jackpot! Studios July 2007
Kendra Lynn & Sasha Drumure @ Jackpot! Studios July 2007
Chris Hutton @ Lewi's House 2007
Jeff Simmons did the rest in various locations 2005-2008
Mixed by Jeff Simmons, except "Edge" mixed by Jeff Stuart Saltzman
Mastered by Jeff Stuart Saltzman @ Super Digital March 2008
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