Fear not white people, though the summer is almost over you now have a soundtrack to all the bad decisions you’ll be making at bars, parties, bedrooms and rooftops. In between sets at a Hair Police show two weeks ago, I heard this infectious song via Swingset Steve as he DJ’ed Wiz Of Oz style behind a curtain at Rehab (huh?) on the L.E.S. Vodka, soda and humidity made my brain forget to ask what it was but the following Thursday its identity was revealed as the needle dropped on another Steve DJ set. Moment of thanks and praise for the gospel according to Lowenthal.
In The City is the property of Orland, California’s Nothing People, an early-Chrome leaning, sometimes post, often times proto punk outfit that like Blank Dogs exists in their own world of “now” despite expanding their waistline with healthy portions of “then”. Though In The City was the lead track of their last of their three 7″s I’m giving it W.P.S.J. (White Person Summer Jam) status because it’s also the lead track on their debut LP Anonymous on S-S Records. That means they love the thing so much that they recorded 10-ish other tunes and realized they’d be blowing it if this song didn’t set off side A, that’s expert planning. 600 platters of vinyl exist so cop this immediately, if you are an mp3 only type, then I can offer you this : 01-in-the-city and also this:02-sickness so you can get psyched.
Remember all the terrible things you did to House Of Jealous Lovers? This jam has more swag and less of a guilty pleasure vibration. There’s something poetic about the Rapture helping every pale, shaggy lover of open bars get laid by making a herky jerky song that whitey’s stiff joints could loosen cartilage to in semi-rhythmic fashion against a backdrop of black-and-white stripes, white fairy dust and exposed brick, how innocent we were. Nothing People made a fantastic record though not a one off Vice Magazine target audience aphrodisiac. Anonymous is a great ride top to bottom, someone buy this and rip it to a sweet compressed digital format for me so I can enjoy it on the train.
TAGS: Chrome, Hair Police, Nothing People, Summer Jam, Swingset Magazine
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