There
are a lot of different sounds coming out of N.213, and while they all have
their respective names individually, they don’t seem to have an appropriate
genre when combined.
Through
the depths of electro pop rock into lo-fi, synth, drum machines and synth pop
even these somewhat short and moderately paced songs seem to have ingredients
that have yet to be defined inclusively.
It could be art pop rock, but it
also brings out the distorted bomps of a band such as The White Stripes (though
does not resemble them in any other way really)
You
could certainly dance to it, and there are distorted vocals and 8bit sounds at
times even. It’s somewhere between
Illegal Wiretaps, Cafeteria Dance Fever and Hidden Cameras if I had to pick a handful
of bands to compare it with. The problem
is, those bands share some qualities but are still somewhat different in their
own rights, thus proving this is harder to make an exact comparison.
If you’re
wondering why it’s with Nikki Never (I was beginning to wonder after Side A),
she has a few songs on the second side before vocals go back to who was singing
on the first side. For the Nikki Never
songs, hints of The Bengals or even The Go-Go’s are at the forefront and that’s
not at all a bad thing.
All of
these different genres are fine by me and when put together they create a sound
that I still like. On some level, this could be the soundtrack to
a 1980’s movie if it had that bit of punk edge to it, but you’d have to think
of a single band doing the entire soundtrack.
On the other side of the coin, if you found all of these songs collected
together it might be in a jukebox, only given their length I’d really like to
just call this jukebox a.d.d. but that has probably already been attributed to
some other band somewhere.
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