"everyone lies just to survive / days come and go so fast and slow / no piece of pie if you're holding the knife..."
Singer-songwriter / multi-instrumentalist / divergent artist J. Micah Nelson is known to the world as Particle Kid and his massive upcoming 26 track album, "Time Capsule", birthed from music Micah has been crafting for the last 5 years turns many corners. His eclectic style that pushes multiple generational buttons and blends genres from jazz fusion to Pere Ubu-esque sideways rock to psych / garden rock organic sounds and blends them with social commentary digs deep. The album also features the talents of Margo Price, J. Mascis, Sean Lennon, among others.
The last track on the album "Amerikan Lyfe" is a stirring musical fusion that feels, at times, like a sing-a-long rock opera surreal and thought provoking. Micah brings on his dad, Willie Nelson, who lends his guitar work and sage like vocal countenance and I love how their harmonies together don't match up but feel raw and sort of messy. The song feels at once dadaistic, ID, improvisational and weird (I mean this as an utter compliment) as it brews and bubbles over. Micah's guitar work, electric pushed melodies that feel at once drunken and totally self aware (I thought of John Frusciante a bit) is the engine that move this dreamy track along while jazz dipped lead guitar pushes against the bubble.
This is a song to fall asleep to as you ponder Micah's words about acceptance and the stupidity of definitions and the love of "LIFE< LIFE< LIFE".
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://particlekid.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/particlekidofficial
https://open.spotify.com/track/3vcJQgv7OPKdEKDfsf5eON
On his latest project, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Particle Kid (J. Micah Nelson) pulls listeners down the rabbit hole to experience the music he’s been making over the past five years. His self-described “experimental future-folk solo project” is releasing a sprawling epic, Time Capsule, taking listeners on a nearly two-hour trip through various genres, ideas and sounds, an eclectic palette of sonic colors, both familiar and exploratory feelings painted together like a collage, as if 90s alt, 60s psych, 70s electric jazz, and some abstract future were all magazines—chopped up and somehow cohesively glued together by Micah’s voice and lyrics as well as guest spots from Margo Price, J Mascis and Sean Ono Lennon, among others.
Described by Rolling Stone as a “trippy troubadour” and a “musical polymath who combines an indie DIY aesthetic with a questing hippie spirit and a relentless work ethic,“ Particle Kid is a constantly absorbing and evolving musician who has both musical DNA and professional experience backing Neil Young (along with his brother Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real), collaborating with John Doe, Tinariwen and the Flaming Lips and working on his own projects like the psych-punk orchestra Insects vs. Robots. Micah’s dad, Willie Nelson, helped name his band: Micah rolled into the house one day and Willie meant to say, “Welcome home, Prodigal Son!” but he had just burned a fat one and it came out as, “Welcome home, Particle Kid!” instead.
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