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“This Piano Plays Itself is comprised of five members: Eric (Guitar and vocals), Aaron (Bass), Jayson (Guitar and keys), Justin (Drums) and Doug (Guitar and keys). Their music can be described in a number of ways, such as garage rock, psychedelic, or even happy music, but the more interesting but somewhat accurate way of describing their music would be “Mushroom Rock,” a form of music that makes the listener feel as though they are going through an out of body experience. A usual song will begin with a nice melody, then explode into a barrage of guitars and a heavy bass booming through the music. It’s almost like a roller coaster full of melodies and vocals that make you feel as if you are soaring though hyper space. Their live shows are always intense and will definitely make you go home feeling like you have just gone through an experience that will stay with you for a while.” – Benjamin Carson / Art Nouveau (An-Mag.com)
"This Piano Plays Itself gracefully infuses patterns with lush guitars and hushed vocals; a sound reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine mixed with Slint’s dynamic song structures. This Piano Plays Itself is capable of epic storytelling that whirls and whisks lyrical ideas repeating throughout songs until they gain new meaning." - The Other Sound
“The Atlanta-based This Piano Plays Itself delves deep into the electronic possibilities traditional instruments can offer, their style a drugged state of the usual rock fare, one that's somehow pulls off refined incoherence.
In many of their songs, the start is slow and mellow, with the melodies quietly building towards a sort of climax that pulls in instrumentation you wouldn't always expect -- reverbs, pitch shifters, delays and echoes, with the occasional horn cutting through the effects. Their style carries masculine overtones; their subtle certain machismo rock almost always pounds its way through their art facade.” – Pine Magazine
Here is a review of their debut ep:
“Local Atlanta’s This Piano Plays Itself just released a self-titled EP that takes the listener through an impressive variety of tones. Their “Explosions-in-the-Death-Cab” sound is highlighted by some electronic muscle that stretches their sound out of the worn idea of guitar rock, and although their influences may be somewhat transparent, this self-produced first effort shows huge potential. The opening minute or so of the record, a series of reverb-heavy synth loops, do a great job of setting up the first real song of the record, Day of Symmetry. From there, the record continues to display more guitar than synthy rock, but there are a couple electronic music-esque production tricks thrown in, like on Post Haste the Proletariat Waits and Awake/Asleep. Throwing on the reverb thick on both the guitars and vocals give the shoe-gaze elements of this band’s sound an other worldly quality. Having seen the band live a couple times, the record surprised me by accomplishing a more calculated and in the pocket feel alongside their normally raucous and Godspeed!-type spastic parts, exemplified in the closing track of the record, These are Segments of Revolving and Revolting.
The record throws some serious wall of noise guitar bashing in with the peripheral electronic experimentation while not feeling gimmicky, or as if searching for filler….This band’s thick sound shows huge potential and I am psyched to hear them move forward with more tunes.” – Ohm Park
Listen to "As The House..."
This Piano Plays Itself on Myspace
*POPWRECKONING*: "These guys are GOOD. These guys are REALLY good… this is a relentless, driving record that demands attention and doesn’t let go…Never mundane or repetitive, this is an album in the truest sense of the word.”
*DELUSIONS OF ADEQUACY*: "It’s always a roller coaster. You never know what’s coming next with these guys, and that’s what makes for compelling listening."
PLUMBIFEROUS MEDIA: "Instant Everything, Constant Nothing is very good, if often somewhat strange. Clearly experimental, but done by a band that could easily have played straight rock had they so desired, Everything is a truly interesting album."
THE AGIT READER: "Without risk there can be no reward, and it’s good to see a band that not only takes risk, but is also able to make them pay off."
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Hailing from sunny Atlanta, GA, Nomen Novum have already amassed a rabid following among the city’s twenty-five most discerning clubgoers. Not quite “fun” in the Atlantan sense of the word, but decidedly not NOT fun, NoNo will graciously accept a PBR, but after pounding it, pose the question “what now?”
Nomen Novum website
$8, 18+ - Paid admission includes a free copy of "As The House..." on cd as well!
