No-Fi Soul Rebellion and the wildly inventive single "Lone Wolf" / "Let's Pretend All Groan"

 

"It’s a pastiche! / The Alpha’s on my leash / Pack numbers are down and I’m all like sheesh / Personal freedom and inner peace / All seem just beyond my reach..."

Like a collision of Beastie Boys and Modest Mouse, the scintillating alt rock jammer "Lone Wolf" by No-Fi Soul Rebellion, the moniker of pastiche rocker Mark Heimer who has been blending genres like punk, rock, pop, R&B, new wave, power pop and funk fusions since 2001, is both elegant and gnarly. The group's latest studio effort, a single with the aforementioned A-side "Lone Wolf",  backed by the B-side of "Let's Pretend -All Groan'' is available NOW on all streaming services. 

There is a lot to appreciate here from super heavy prog rock drops to East Coats funky new wave-esque shapes like Talking Heads or their offshoot Tom Tom Club. As I eluded to, Heimer's vocal countenance, on "Lone Wolf", does sort of remind me of  Isaac Brock around the edges but not in a copy cat sort of way. 

From Press notes:

['Lone Wolf' is a meditation on the empowerment and isolation of choosing a new path in one's life. The analogy of the pack animal that goes its own way examines the freedom of autonomy and the captivity of solitude.]

The B-side "Let's Pretend All Groan" is also wonderfully wonky, and I gleefully thought of Pere Ubu and Wire in the same breath. 

No-Fi Soul Rebellion pushes against all sorts of sonic envelopes (a great thing, especially these days). 

-Robb Donker Curtius

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4jdMxTFOZqUN4L6ng8QkXt

https://nofisoulrebellion.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nofisoulrebellion/

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Since 2001, Mark Heimer has been crafting and performing eclectic pop and rock songs informed by punk, rock, pop and R&B music under the syllable-heavy moniker of No-Fi Soul Rebellion.

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