Awww, yes, I am reminiscing about our long lost CD, the "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture", the soundtrack to the 1996 film of the same name, you know the one starring a 22 year old Leonardo DiCaprio and a 17 year old Claire Danes. It was one of our favorite 90's music collection (back in the day) that my wife and I would drop in our Silver (POS) Lumina's CD player while tooling around with the kids in the back. I think we wore it out just like that now ancient Offspring CD (Ixnay On The Hombre). Those CD's were family favorites. Driving alone I would drop in Ok Computer.
That was so long ago but I still contend that the Romeo + Juliet is a great collection of music and listening to the exquisitely cool "Not Helping" by Portland, Maine based All False, the solo project of singer-songwriter, musician and former indie rock band frontman Nicholas Rier, I am feeling nostalgic. Now, it's not that All False's heavy wash of pounding guitars, bass, drums (programmed or otherwise) and Rier's evocative vocal countenance doesn't feel fresh, it certainly does but I am strongly sensing and liking the 90's aesthetic, saturated in a decidedly post grunge sound and so well produced in a sort of space in between artists like STP and Silverchair with aspects that feel a bit more Echo and the Bunnymen / The Cure post punkish.
I would even gently argue that "Not Helping" would fit perfectly in the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack in between Radiohead's "Talk Show Host" and Stina Nordenstam's "Little Star".
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://soundcloud.com/user-440073805
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7t0h6MBzXsFwVAPqNUZ36F
https://allfalse.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/allfalsemusic
Made by a former indie-rock front person in a spare bedroom, All False is equal parts human, telecaster, and computer.
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