Spotting this album in the iTMS brought me back to the early days of
CDs. As an early adopter of digital music, I suffered from the lack
of content to play on my new equipment. If there was an upside to the
paucity of releases, it was that we tended to try just about anything
that showed up in the stores. And as a result, discovered musical
styles and groups we might not otherwise have noticed.
I've
written elsewhere about how getting
my first player led almost inevitably to an appreciation for classical
music, whose grand sound could be heard in all its complexity.
The Nylons are at the opposite end of the scale: four guys
from Montreal with no instruments at all. (Well, sometimes a little
rhythm.) It's the
minimalism of their performance that made them a natural for the crisp
and clean sound of digital reproduction. It still does.
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