Fresh Track: Nico Rivers “Tidal Wave”

Nico Rivers self describes as “blurring the lines between indie-rock and Americana” and while I find him to be slightly more Bright Eyes than Bob Dylan I can get on board with that description.

The latest from the Boston based singer-songwriter is a punched up rocker with layers of raging electric guitars, evocatively stirring vocals and layers and depths of electronically derived sonic cyclones of swirling arrays. The thing moves…f*cking a, does its move.

Tidal Wave is part of a short release from Rivers. The main single with a backbone of “B-sides” consisting of tunes Backroads and an alternate version of All the Same. The former sounding like some hybrid foot-stomping-Lumineers-styled-folk meets melodic-ringing-guitars-indie-rock. Its infectious. All The Same is anything but more of the same. A solitary tremolo soaked guitar starts off the track. Its quiet and contemplative…until it is not. The break feeling reminiscent of another Boston birthed band, The Ballroom Thieves in the way the male and female harmonies interplay and the arrangement choices.

In just 3 tracks Nico and crew manage to span a host of landscapes through their exploration of differing sounds and emotions.

Check out the latest from Nico Rivers below…and buy this stuff on the Bandcamp page.