Currently, Nightwood is putting the final touches on their as-of-yet untitled full length recording with Martin Horn of Digital Bird Studios. The record is shaping up to be an album in the true sense of the word; carefully measured and balanced sentiment, sound and stories meant to be listened to from beginning to end. The songs fit snug against each other like sailors below deck, whispering stories about life at sea, a bottle passed back and forth, adrift amidst oceanic rock and roll. Stay tuned for this fall release! Watch us make it happen!
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Big City EP CD (Grenadine Records) – Released May 13, 2008
Tracklisting:
1. Blind Assassin
2. The Bikeriders
3. The Hunger
4. Cave of the Spleen
5. Elephantine
6. Harvest
Long-time collaborators Erin Ross and Amber Goodwyn come together with recent addition “Famous” Eric Lapointe to deliver their first mini-album, Big City EP (GREN018) on Montreal indie label Grenadine Records. Recorded by Martin Horn at Digital Bird Studios, this 6-song album is tightly packed, music for the disenchanted. Nightwood takes its cues from Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Low, modern literature, porn and cinema (e.g. Night of the Hunter, The Hunger and First Blood).
In Big City EP, Nightwood creates songs with soft rhythmic beginnings and grows them in intensity, until they are lush and fully expanded sounds. These big and powerful rock songs are belied by the simplicity of the band’s minimal instrumentation. The doubling of clean guitars (Goodwyn on the Triple X, Ross on the Flying V), alongside Famous’ heavy drumming, lays the framework for the band’s unique and eerily intertwined vocal harmonies. Nightwood is storytelling made musical; they require no cheap frills in building the soundtrack for their various musical protagonists: a blind assassin, a blood lusting Catherine Deneuve, and bikerider Big Barbara. These are a few of the characters who find themselves on the wild ride that is Big City EP.
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