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Elephant Art
The Nyquist Frequency
This year, summer in the Framptons with lushly-produced 70's-drenched psychedelic indie pop reminiscent of the Byrds, Queen, and Built to Spill.<br>
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Mirrorland | 4:23 | Play |
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The Wheelbarrow | 2:51 | Play |
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Sand | 3:53 | Play |
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Arctic Circle | 4:25 | Play |
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The Oslo Files | 2:44 | Play |
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Tullster | 3:09 | Play |
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The Watersong | 3:49 | Play |
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Inn: Another Life | 2:47 | Play |
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Dark Skies | 1:57 | Play |
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Sunflower | 3:07 | Play |
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Curve of the Earth | 1:35 | Play |
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Parsifal Saturday Nights | 4:30 | Play |
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Sunset | 3:27 | Play |
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Description
The Nyquist Frequency is a collection of musicians and friends headed by songwriter, singer, and instrumentalist Keith Nyquist. Elephant Art is their debut album. Its a 70s-soaked indie pop treat best heard on headphones, but any stereo will do.
If you like the Chime und Drang of the early Byrds, the Drang of Night at the Opera, the splendiferous genre-hopping of Ween, and the jangly guitorchestrations of Built to Spill, this record is likely to please. Its at times gentle or hard-edged, but always catchy.
Recorded in a home studio in The Frequencys hometown of DeKalb, Illinois, Elephant Art draws heavily from a small universe of sounds and sources, but once sewn together the songs all bear The Nyquist Frequencys signature sound.
"I wanted to make the kind of record I always wanted to hear," says Nyquist. So, we tried just about everything as we were recording. Ive always been drawn to musicians who were able to pull together a bunch of disparate ideas and make them their own. We used a lot of guitars, and we wanted it to rock.
Mirrorland, the albums opening track, begins with an anthemic fanfare, and then retreats into a landscape of voices, harps, and glockenspiel. The Wheelbarrow is a slice of Farfisa-fed psychedelia; Arctic Circle blasts off with a swirl of 12-string Rickenbackers, giving way to the quiet percussion of The Oslo Files. Along the way theres plenty more to surprise the listener, from the guitar eruptions of Parsifal Saturday Nights to the dont-miss-it vocal calliope that ends the albums closing track, Sunset.
As a member of DeKalb, ILs Ubique recording collective, Nyquist lingered on the periphery of the creation of Ubique first two album releases, Grenadiers Hand Offensive and The Tall Grass Captains of Greater Chicagos She Moved Through. Captains frontman Mark Mattson lends his voice to much of Elephant Art, and Ubique drummer Craig Swafford brings his kit and talents to the Frequency.
Elephant Art is available now at CDBaby.com and Amazon.com.
Check out The Nyquist Frequency on the web at nyquistfrequency.net