Here is a guy you may/may not want to check out. You can
form your own opinion, fluke or what? Meet Nick
Waterhouse the 24 year old, from Huntington Beach CA, who brings us the
50’s-60’s style music looking like the long gone Buddy Holly with the dorky black
glasses, the current retro rage, and his vintage clothing that make him look
like he came straight out of a 1960’s year-book.
Waterhouse has created the sound of the scratchy
45 accompanied by blaring saxophones, with heavy beats, and doowop singers in
the background imitating the late 50’s
and early 60’s famous with Buddy Holly and the rock & roll blues band, of
that era that had soul. His persona is of an era gone by with album TIME’S
ALL GONE out on iTunes May 1, 2012. He lives and breathes vintage and is
with the trend, but hits it hard, with a unique gritty version of the songs
from back them.
Music Review by Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune
3 stars (out of 4)
At its best, Nick Waterhouse’s music sounds like it was
recorded at a house party just as it shifts toward oblivion. Saxophones squawk, guitar solos lunge; even
the drums sound distorted. Waterhouse’s pleasingly wrecked guitar playing is
matched by singing that teeters out of control every so often, like he’s trying
to tamp down a wild animal in his throat. Only the female backing vocalists
maintain their cool, as if teasing their overheated bandmates.
Waterhouse is in his mid-twenties, and he owes almost
everything to music that was created before he was born. But unlike the
period-piece posturing of some of his retro-soul peers, Waterhouse isn’t
interested in precise replications on his debut, "Time's All Gone" (Innovative Leisure). Instead
he aims to channel their volatility; what he likes about those scratchy 45 rpm
singles is how unstable they sound.
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