79,89€
Nihilistic Easyrider is the brainchild of Narrow Head frontman
Jacob Duarte—but make no mistake, he’s not going solo.
DELUXE EDITION is a mixtape of sorts, a collection of
songs written at various intervals throughout Duarte’s career.
These songs traverse a wide-range of stylistic references,
from saccharine Y2K emo and young-dumb-and-full-of pop
punk to Soviet fuzz fueled alt and pure Evan Dando-core
verse-chorus-verse-chorus-done pop rock. Brought to life
by a cast of characters including Narrow Head drummer
Carson Wilcox, producer (and former tour-mate) Graham
Hunt and features from Momma’s Allegra Weingarten and
Ella Friedman, this debut album still provides with masterfully
crafted and hook-drenched renditions of Duarte’s signature
songwriting aesthetics.
These songs wade in the same messiness of romantic
misfires and burnt brain synapses that longtime Narrow
Head listeners have come to know and love, just from a
different, new perspective. Duarte’s tales of loneliness,
anticipation, and life’s mired complexities on songs like
“Getaway Plan” and “Well Kept Secret” are surrounded by
a vibrant backing cast of drone-bee synth swells, barroom
piano stabs, rattling acoustic guitars, and tribal-tat coded
record-scratch aesthetics that subtly nod to both Incubus’
hardest moments and Deftones’ softest.
With DELUXE EDITION, Duarte provides us with diaristic
vignettes of a life in perpetual motion, offering a more
introspective view into the preoccupations of a songwriter
whose life revolves around the stage but is ultimately lived
elsewhere. To Jacob, “Nihilistic Easyrider songs are closer to
the music I always wanted to make growing up,” he says, “a
personal diary of growing up through music.”