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NEIN - Luxury
| Silent Urpoar | | Call them what you will: art rock, post-rock, post-punk, North Carolina’s The Nein is a band that revels in deconstructing the traditional rock and roll order and deviating from simply following the guitar/bass/drums norm. Incorporating all manners of white noise, electronic sounds and vocal samples, the band displays an adventurous creative spirit. The only significant fault to be found with Luxury is that at times (see, for example, “Decollage” and “Journalist 2”); the band seems to be experimenting for the sake of experimenting, without any benefit to the track. ...full text |
| | Treble | | The Nein is…you know…one of those bands that, at first, sound like every other band, trying to capture the sound of something never done before. The problem usually sustains from the fact that, it's all been done, but in the case of The Nein, they're just edging the line. On, Luxury, the follow-up to 2005's Wrath of Circuits and their second full-length studio album, The Nein proves that the tried and tested equation of post-punk tempos and over-ecstatic vocals is used and reused for a reason....full text |
| | Popmatters | | Oh, what a difference a tape loop guy makes. When the Nein emerged onto the Chapel Hill scene in 2003 with their angular guitars, throbbing bass, and danceable drums, they were quickly added to the long list of neo New Wavers, the post-punk dance kids, those ‘80s revivalists who borrowed everything but the hair and the byoo-ey electronic drums....full text |
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