~HumanBoy~ Brings sound and texture to the Nomad
Humanboy once again brought class to the venue it was currently occupying on Friday night. Their sound continues to be tight and inviting.
The always beautiful Brie Harthun swooned her microphone as drummer Ryan Guanzon drove the live and sampled drums into everyone’s frontal lobe until they couldn’t help but share the beat.
The guitar work of Geoff Fischbein and Ben Berg is hypnotic. With Fischbein seducing the calmer side of Humanboy with fluent and subtle plucking, Berg begins to add simple and moving accents to each melody. Reminiscent of the Stone Roses and The Verve alike, Berg’s tones tend to be reverberated and precise. This is a sound that I seem unable to get enough of. The guitars, although being polar opposites in delivery, fit together so perfectly that it gave a very complete sound to the whole show.
Harthun’s voice is sweet but not too sweet, perfect but not too perfect. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a sour note out of her. She sings with confidence and the assurance that you made the right choice to go out on this Friday night.
You’d pick up a copy of their latest offering, “I’m No Good at This,” at their upcoming Triple Rock Social Club on January 24th, 2008 if you loved yourself, but if you can’t, check out their myspace page @ www.myspace.com/humanboy
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