Eclectic pop with guitars, moogs, accordions and trumpet, stuck together with intelligent lyrics.

15 MP3 Songs
POP: Quirky, POP: Delicate



Details:
Snakes & Umbrellas, it should be said, is an album that was recorded on the continent of North America. Nick Jaina took his digital recorder from San Diego to New York City and important places in between to get the sounds that beep and buzz together to make this chunk of eclectic pop. Lyrically painful with Tourettic imagery, this is like Brecht trying to piece together something you can dance to. Nick has a charming vulnerability to his work, although his mother says he's trying too hard.

Nick is now in the band Binary Dolls in Portland, Oregon, and their new album "Seesaw Sunday Nights" is also available from cdbaby, at http://www.cdbaby.com/binarydolls

"Unpolished and sparse, Nick Jaina's Snakes & Umbrellas excels at understatement. Recorded simply, his jazz influenced pop is eclectic but approachable, and his charged lyrics are intelligent without having to try. Every element of Snakes & Umbrellas makes it a hidden gem without hiding Nick Jaina's talent as a singer and songwriter."
-PopMatters

"A cross-country memoir dotted with field recordings from an electronic landscape, Snakes & Umbrellas pastes together the geography of American music seamlessly. Nick Jaina amasses Jazz, Folk, Blues and Rock into the studio and manages to keep them in the same room for the duration of the album."
-Skyscraper