Tuesday, May 4, 2010

nite nite

nite nite
How to Touch the Moon

Nashville is as good a place as any for a band to call Siouxsie Sioux as an influence. The proliferation of love for Sioux or The Cure and near-heartland geography are found buried within nite nite’s How to Touch the Moon. nite nite exemplify a new, and better, trend of modern music that channels styles from bands from nearly thirty years ago. In the simplest terms, they smartly blend old with new. That said, nite nite make moody, emotional fun. Even with the easy comparisons to darker pop music, nite nite is nevertheless catchy and accessible. It bears little baggage of the Goth label and if one were to not look at band photos it would be easy to compartmentalize How to Touch the Moon as a dance and synth-pop laced album graced with a unique lead singer – Sarah-Brooks Levine, and a band adept at mixing driving rhythms and crashing ambiance. Levine is a raspy and ghost-throated singer – she can play as much as she can howl, smile less than gnash her teeth. nite nite’s sound may appear new wave but it fits nicely along the lines of Franz Ferdinand or Class Actress, just more serious.

Brian Tucker

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