A rare breed of North-Atlantic heron was riding atop the head of the Loch Ness Monster during a solar eclipse on Friday the 13th and your camera was plugged into the wall back at the bed and breakfast. Shame on you. Fortunately, after a 12 month hiatus, NICE NEW OUTFIT reunited to play a seven-song set and - no thanks to you - the tape was rolling.
Recorded live on February 5th, 2010, at the Calhoun School for The Arts in NYC (where front-man Anthony Yacobellis is an elementary school math teacher) by Paul Powell (who's usually pushing faders and adjusting microphones for NYC's Mayor Bloomberg), CAPTURA lives up to it's name. As a brief snapshot of a band reunited for just one weekend, this "album" lives up to both its photographic and musical definitions.
Featuring paint-peeling covers of Quicksand's "Head To Wall" and GlassJaw's "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss," Nice New Outfit reveals their roots of yesteryear, while simultaneously providing us with a set of original material too tight to swipe a credit card through the chord changes.
With the bottomless pocket of rhythm section Tim Brennan and Jason Murray (of the touring blues act
Joe Roberto & Poverty Hash) acting as a solid foundation for the glass and steel structure of guitarists Joshua Obijiski and Morgan Pearce, singer Anthony Yacobellis (founder of the long-running
Sub Rosa Party in Danbury, CT) has room to perch atop the bell-tower, equal parts menacing gargoyle, beacon of solace and tempting siren.
Live video from the following night's performance at Sub Rosa Party is available at
YouTube.
