EP Review: I Wanna Feel This Way Forever (NOMAD SHAKES)
There’s an immediate Kasabian vibe to the opening bars of ‘Just Do It Again’… but then the track drops, and we’re getting echoes of Nomad Shakes’ cousins from other brothers, Kid Kapichi.
There’s nothing wrong with this, and there’s definitely something in the water of Hastings that binds the talent currently emerging from their close-knit fishing community, and which seems incapable of having six months go by before delivering another sh*t-hot band onto the UK scene.
[Check out Greentea Peng, HotWax and Nova Twins alongside KK]
The swelling and undulating crescendo of the song’s chorus has that primal vibe that evokes sweaty mosh and circle pits, and if there’s any justice in the world we’ll be seeing heaving crowds getting dirty to JDIA in many a field next summer.
‘Eyes Wide Shut’ is the second track on the EP, and again, it evokes the passion of local breakthrough acts such as KK and their pals SNAYX.
But ‘evoking’ doesn’t mean copying… this is about building a scene, and from the perspective of someone who lived through the heyday of Mod, and Two-Tone, the sense that I get from listening to songs of this calibre is that we might be on the cusp of a new vibe…something that a lost generation can grab hold of and call their own.
Three songs into the EP, and Nomad Shakes are taking no prisoners… Max’s impassioned vocals ride high, like a surfer on a wave of power guitar driven by an undetow of bass action…
“Forgive Me” is short, sharp, and to the point… a powerhouse song that whenever it pops up in a live set is bound to see the crowd explode.
In the same way that Just Do It Again brought Kasabian to mind, ‘Mundane Monday’ harks back to Deep Purple, with Smoke on the Water ripples running incessantly through the opening 30-seconds or so, before gear change and the track takes a very different (but complimentary) direction. This is a foot-stamping anthem if we ever heard one, and it’s what one-two-three-four was designed for.
Let’s Do It Again!
