Rocky Nest-En El Autobus DIY Hi5
The Rocky Nest-En El Autobus D.I.Y Hi5
If you haven't seen the Rocky Nest lately then you've been missing out on one of the cities most idiosyncratic bands, slowly but surely through intimate low key gigs, perfecting their craft. Now with their latest LP the band have hit the perfect middle ground between their DIY, grassroots leanings and a recording that befits their understated yet gorgeous wonky pop songs.
Unlike the Rocky Nests brilliant but flawed EP every instrument on "autobus" strums, parps and chimes with perfect clarity while the album still manages to fuzz and crackle with the warmth of a favorite well worn vinyl record as in the track "Blomflugan", which tickles the ears with it's delicate bird song and sparsely strummed guitar, fret-board squeaks and all. It's still all terribly ramshackle, which is why we fell in love with Mr Sarel and his merry folksters. Only now all the parts have been polished to a shiny stripped back, frazzled folk-phycadelia sheen without being swamped in overly slick and clinical production.
In-between the Spanish stirrings of opening track "En El Autobus DIY Hi5" the nest prove they've still got the nack of weaving together near perfect pop songs in "Lenny and Jenny" slinking out of the speakers with a drunken sounding horn opening. Elsewhere the album delights with the cutesy nursery pop of "Needle and Thread", a track that Rod, Jane and Freddy wish they'd written and the skewered fab four aping "My perfumed garden". At any given time this record is twee, minimal, orchestral, childish and unashamedly fun!
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