Nancy Demo Tape

Whenever someone compares a contemporary band to a relatively "legendary" act I cringe. At that moment it's nearly impossible to stop the cynicism from oozing out of my pores. Usually I don't ever even check the band out. Luckily with Nancy I didn't make that mistake upon hearing comparisons to people like The Ramones. Nancy would be completely in their element opening up some early Ramones gig in NYC. With a sound so reminiscent of a long gone era it would be real easy to come off as completely cheesy, but this doesn't at all. This demo is the most infectious thing I've listened to in years. I sat down to listen to it once before I started writing this, but that's impossible. Currently
I 'm listening to it for the 3rd time in a row. Enjoy.

This tape was released by Eat the Life Records. Go buy it here.

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Nuclear Spring - 12" EP

I was a huge fan of Nuclear Spring's demo so I was thrilled about being able to grab a copy of this record at Chaos in Tejas back in June. Unfortunately Nuclear Spring didn't play, but Daniel who runs Sorry State Records brought some distro items including this gem. Go check out the Sorry State Webstore by the way it is always well stocked with records and tapes you should be buying.

Anyway the demo got described in a variety of places as having a street punk kind of style to it and big names like Blitz and The Templars were thrown around for comparisons. Few bands successfully pull off the kind of catchy but still very much punk sound Nuclear Spring had on their demo.

This 12" has a noticeably cleaner sound that may take a track or two to adjust to if you played the demo to death, but don't take me bringing this up to mean it is something I disliked about the record. My favorite difference between this and the demo is that Lauren the sole Female member of the group, who plays in the excellent all girl La Misma, is given a lot more time on vocals. On the demo she was mainly only on backup vocals during some of the choruses, but on this 12" EP vocal duties are split much more evenly. Along with the cleaned up sound this adds another element to the band's sound that helps improve upon the demo. A great record you should download immediately.

Here is the band camp link if you want to check out 2 tracks before downloading [even though downloading won't cost you time or money] - http://nuclear-spring.bandcamp.com/

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This record as well as the demo were put out by Hysteria Records http://hysteriarecords.bigcartel.com/

 

 

As a side note Hysteria is based out of 538 Johnson in Brooklyn and it is a huge bummer for me personally to see that since due to work I am barely able to get up there for shows anymore. Between 06 and 08 when I was finishing both undergrad & graduate school I was getting rides up to 538 for shows all the time. If you haven't been to a show there I highly recommend it. Seeing Darvocets, Inmates, Easter Kids [the name Salvation used to go by] and Dustheads there remains one of my all time favorite hardcore shows. A lot of great shows still happen there so check https://twitter.com/HC_GIG_VOLUME and other places around the internet.

Take care.