NOD
Through The Space Between The Leaves (self-released)
Reviewed by Erick Mertz

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I'm a fool for gearheads. Anyone enraptured by the implements of their craft charms me to twitters. When I opened Nod's album Through The Space Between The Leaves, I was pleased to find what amounts to a laundry list of instruments and technological gadgets used to create it.

Even more pleasing than the technical list was listening to Through The Space Between The Leaves. The brainchild of Blake Woessner, Nod's sound is one of droning aural cinema. Many of the songs will remind listeners of the Folk Implosion sound of emotive slacker pop rock. The moodier concoctions resemble "Cold Blows The Wind" vintage Ween, both whip smart and ethereally inclined, like lazy rainy Sundays reading the paper and drinking Chamomile tea. "Going Home" and "God Made Dirt (Eloise vs. Kim Deal)" are especially tasty tracks among the seemingly cohesive unit of songs. There are the requisite nods to whiskey and woe soaked nights alone, but Through The Space Between The Leaves lacks the pretension that makes these topics sometimes seem trivial. It is an album that drums its own tension, accomplished enough not to have to force anything.

[Pick this up at http://www.mp3.com/n0d.]

© 2003 - Erick Mertz