New Track: The Nix – ‘Luna’

Reverberating from the dusty drinking dens and backroom bars on the outskirts of Manchester, the swampy sounds of Stockport five-piece The Nix have caught our ears with their debut track, ‘Luna’. Scorched, woozy and led by a punch-drunk, poetic croon, the track is a lurching, shadowy, indie gem that gazes at the moon and ponders the mysteries of adolescent heartache. It could easily be an outtake from those Arctic Monkeys’ sessions in the Californian desert with Josh Homme.

More dreamy and trippy than your average bosh and wallop Brit-pop guitar gang, these likely lads lead us down a path of twisted melodies, shuffle-and-stop drum rolls and an outbreak of psychy guitar noodling that wouldn’t be out of place on The Stone Roses’ Second Coming album. A hazy outro further drifts away into a proggy space-jam and takes us off the beaten path and down into a field full of lost ‘60s acid casualties.

It’s still early days, but the band somehow morph into a jam session involving Tame Impala, The Coral and Syd Barrett without ever sounding like a group of puss-faced Floyd revivalists – no mean feat.

Listen out for local live dates and an album on its way come Autumn.

 

Kevin Irwin

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