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| Bio |
The first thing you notice about the guys in Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia is that they're defined more by what they love than what they don't. Brothers Jeffrey (aka Swan) & Dan Jeremy Brooks are enthusiastic, omnivorous lovers of music, & firm believers in the power of collage, that all-encompassing art form that searches for a moment that transcends the sum of its parts. Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia's songs are their sonic equivalent of Celebrity Deathmatch, wrestling Vaudeville into the same ring as Sports Rock, Progressive into the arena of Folk Blues, New Wave onto the same court as Industrial, Techno laying down next to Classical. If it's true that he who dies with largest CD collection wins, then these brothers have been keeping their eyes on the prize for some time now. Their parents should've seen it coming. As a kid, Dan would entertain himself by compulsively compiling lists, reading the 1957 World Books, and drawing portraits of US First Ladies & diagrams of the paths food take through human entrails, while Swan filled his childhood hours crashing and then fixing bikes, cars, and computers (in that chronological order), air-brushing popular bands' cover art on t-shirts for classmates, & designing the perfect (yet totally non-lethal) mouse trap. Add the influence of a guitar-strumming folk mass mom & a mad-professor electrical engineer dad to that heady brew of OCD & DIY, & viola! You've got Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia, the hybrid that links the sample-yourself aesthetic of the Flaming Lips & the Beta Band with the recontextualizing, sample-the-planet approach that Matmos & Pop Will Eat Itself salute. Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia are writing the kind of songs the narrator of “Thunder Road” would’ve written had he spent more time sitting on his mom’s porch reading Robert Lowell with the Minutemen playing in the next room. Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia are writing the soundtrack to that itching that sometimes you can’t even find, let alone reach to scratch. Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia are writing that feeling you get on a July twilight with the hammer down, the headlights on, and your hand out the window, when there’s no place you’d rather be, or that movie you love past logic, or that new favorite book you’ve just read, or that song you’re waiting for on the radio, or better yet, that moment when you're switching between stations & you catch a bit of both & it's the best thing you've ever heard. Photo of Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia - that Experimental Plunderphonic Sample-Based Power Pop Band! Info for distributors, press, or radio: Order presskit |
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Aurora Beacon-News - Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia Review by Gary Schaefer Montgomery-Oswego Sun - Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia Interview by Meg Dedolph : Cover, Page1&2, Page 3 Photos by Sally Washburn Oswego Ledger-Sentinel - Articles by Stefanie Frazier: Page 1, Page 2 , Review |
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