NIGHTWOOD is a heavy, dark but totally fun rock trio from Montreal. The band have recently released their first full-length album, Carta Marina, entirely independently and have been touring in Eastern Canada to support the record. Like a ship in a bottle, Carta Marina is a carefully crafted rock album teeming with oceanic themes and nautical imagery.
CARTA MARINA is a ten-song album in the truest sense of the word: the release formats are exclusively 12” vinyl LP and digital download with songs that are thematically dense and laden with deep-sea imagery. Carta Marina features drums that thump, elliptical riffs that crash-land rather than end, fuzzy waves of guitar, and voices that call out to each other. Carta Marina’s songs are like sailors lying snug against each other below deck, whispering stories about life at sea, a bottle passed back and forth, adrift amidst oceanic rock and roll.
Proud Montrealers, Nightwood tapped into the city’s deep well of talent. The album’s artwork is courtesy of celebrated local painter Rick Leong, and the album features production by Martin Horn of Digital Bird Studios and additional engineering by Tyler Crawford.
NIGHTWOOD (Amber Goodwyn, Jeremy MacCuish, Erin Ross) have been touring Quebec and Ontario in the weeks following their Pop Montreal album release and are planning a national tour this coming spring. Fiercely D.I.Y., Nightwood have been knee-deep in many aspects of the band; filming their upcoming music video themselves on Super 8, silkscreening band t-shirts and managing an art and style blog on their website. The members of the band are similarly eclectic in their lives outside of Nightwood: Amber is part of the experimental film collective Double Negative and publishes Lickety Split smut zine and Jeremy also plays in the bands Parlovr and Cotton Mouth. Nightwood have one previous recording, Big City E.P., released in May 2008.
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