Nash Lane is:
Bart McGuire - Vocals/Guitar/Bass
Cullen Corley - Drums/Vocals
Nick Romanow - Bass/Guitar
Hi,
We're Nash Lane. This is our first EP, we recorded and released it in 2004. We are writing this description over a year later, in the fall of 2005. We are about to release our first LP "Have A Nice Day" (which should be available right here at cdbaby.com) so we thought we should go back and revise a bit.
Here is our bio:
Hi, We're Nash Lane, an experimental art-rock band based out of Weston, MA. Yes, we are a rock band. Yes, we are loud. No, we are not metal, punk, anything-core, or anything of that sort. Yes, we do incorporate aspects of experimental and noise music. No, we are not a pure experimental or noise band. Yes, we also incorporate aspects of the purest forms of pop music. Yes, we are actually experimental. No, we don't really care; you can describe as whatever you want though we have been known to prefer: Art-rock, experimental rock, hard rock, rock, pop, or some combination of those. Yes, people (including ourselves) have been prone to use words like 'spacey', 'psychedelic', 'noisy' 'atmospheric', and 'rocking' amongst others to describe our music. No, that does not paint a completely accurate picture. Yes, we believe that the music will speak for itself.
Yes, we love you all.
We have been Nash Lane for about a year now. Prior to that we were simply three young men that loved music, some of us made music with the other ones, some of us played with other people, and after many years we decided to play together. We stand by that decision. When we began we were influenced largely by experimental and creative hard-rock bands: Deftones, Incubus, and Tool. As time went on we used those influences as stepping stones and, while maintaining aspects of that sound, started to involve a myriad of artists and sounds: Radiohead, The Beatles, Failure, Barkmarket and countless more. We can't even agree on most of the big influences, but if you ask us we'll be glad to talk about all the bands we love. After all, we are aiming for an original sound so all that really matters is the end result. However it is safe to say that in creating our sound we take many different styles and genres into account from the Beach Boys' sunshine pop to My Bloody Valentine's warm shoegazing to Sonic Youth's guitar noise to Alvin Lucier's avant-garde pieces.
As for this album? We recorded it live in 2 days and mixed in 1 with Nick Gallant of the Boston-based funk-party-kings Pocketsauce at Wellspring Studio. The songs are drawn from our years as a young, fresh-faced high school band. Some of the songs were up to 4 years old and one of the songs was so new that we finished arranging it in the studio. We have always enjoyed and created diverse sounding music but these 6 tracks feature our more "hard-rocking" side. The goal of a lot of these songs was pushing the genre, and ourselves, to new places. "Temperamental" rocks very hard, "Tuskan" is our pyramid song, and "The Lesser Of Two Evils" is an atmospheric track that becomes a wall-of-sound. As it says above we were trying to create something new and different in a similar vein as The Deftones, Tool, and Incubus while incorporating elements of bands like The Beatles, Radiohead, and Failure.
We hope you enjoy this little snapshot of Nash Lane in 2004. After a year (and in this pop-culture-will-eat-itself world, we think it's a fair time to be retrospective) we've grown and changed a lot but we maintain a sentimental fondness for "Aldous" and we sure hope you do too.
Love,
Nash Lane
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