Where? Olympia (USA) Who? Dave Harvey, Stephie Crist, Rachel Carns, Abigail Ingram, Curtis James For fans of: Hawkwind, Captain Beyond, Angel Witch
It’s still fresh in our memory, the endless parade of hard ‘n’ heavy bands paying tribute to what was done and perfected decades ago in the 60s and 70s. Two years ago, there was an overflow of that going on and the problem with paying tribute to a certain era is that sometimes is just that… it doesn’t feel genuine. Fortunately, we still manage to find bands that are worth our time.
The Olympia-based quintet Nudity are one of those bands. Sure, it’s undeniable their deep connection with the hard ‘n’ heavy music of the past, but the output is undeniably genuine. The quintet – which contains members of a handful of other bands from their local scene, including Tight Bro’s From Way Back, Broken Water, Hysterics, The Need, Sex/Vid, etc. – released last April their debut full-length Astronomicon and managed to blow some fresh air to the scene with their mixture of hard rock, prog rock, psychedelic rock, krautrock and space rock.
The band has been around for some time now, but finally things are taking off for them and Astronomicon is the perfect introduction of Nudity’s sound to the world.