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Native Nod was a New York-based hardcore band inspired by Washington's
Rites of Spring.
Their repertory was collected posthumous on
Today Puberty Tomorrow The World (Gern Blandsten).
Van Pelt was formed by Native Nod's guitarist Chris Leo, who enlisted
Brian Maryanski on guitar, Sean Green on bass and Neil O'Brian on drums.
The angular pop of
Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves (Gern Blandsten, 1996)
recalls later, poppier Sonic Youth
(It's A Suffering, You Are The Glue).
Sultans Of Sentiments (Gern Blandsten, 1997) is a more abstract work
that reduces the melodic impact and increases the textural experiments
(Don't Make Me Walk My Own Log, Nanzen Kill a Cat,
The Good The Bad and The Blind).
The single Speeding Train (Art Monk, 1998) marks a return to
Native Nod's melodic hardcore and may be their most accessible song.
After the band broke up,
Chris Leo, bassist Toko Yasuda and drummer Dave Leto started Lapse.
Pretentious lyrics marred or highlight (depending on taste) their debut album,
Betrayal (Gern Blandsten, 1998). The music follows the lyrics, and
that also can be a mixed blessing.
Heaven Ain't Happenin' (Southern, 2000) is more musical than literate
and the compositions spread their wings.
Buffet, Basilico Basilica, Dragonflies and
Into The Psychomanteum showcase a mixture of new wave, no wave,
minimalism and post-rock.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Claudio Vespignani)
Native Nod era un
complesso
hardcore di New York ispirato dai Rites Of Spring di Washington.
Il loro
repertorio e` stato raccolto postumo su Today puberty tomorrow the
world
(Gern Blandsten). I Van Pelt furono formati dal chitarrista dei
Native Nod
Chris Leo, che arruol=F2 Brian Maryanski (chitarra), Sean Green (basso)
e Neil
O’Brian (batteria). Il pop obliquo di Stealing from our
favourite thieves
(Gern Blandsten 1996) ricorda gli ultimi, piu` accessibili Sonic
Youth
(It’s a suffering, You are the glue). Sultans of
sentiments (Gern
Blandsten 1997) e` invece un lavoro piu` astratto che riduce
l’impatto melodico e
aumenta le sperimentazioni strutturali (Don’t make me walk my
own leg, Nanzen
kills a cat, The good, the bad and the blind). Il singolo
Speeding
train (Art Monk 1998) segna un ritorno all’hardcore melodico
dei Native Nod
e potrebbe essere considerato il loro brano piu` accessibile.
Dopo lo scioglimento
del
complesso Chris Leo, la bassista Toko Yasuda e il batterista David Leto
hanno
formato i Lapse. Testi pretenziosi danno rilievo o danneggiano (a
seconda dei
gusti) il loro disco di debutto, Betrayal (Gern Blandsten 1998).
La
musica imita le liriche e ci=F2 rende il disco riuscito a met=E0.
Heaven ain’t
happenin’ (Southern 2000) e` piu` musicale e meno colto, e
le composizioni
prendono il volo. Buffet, Basilico Basilica, Dragonflies e
Into the
psychomanteum esibiscono una fusione fra new wave, no wave,
minimalismo e
post-rock.
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