review by mr. earbeer earbeer@rockabilly.ch
Songs: Sin Rendicion 3:04 No Lo Vi Venir 2:23 Hoy 2:54 Tramposo Y Mentiroso 3:07 Eso Si Que No 1:58 Perdido 3:25 Un Solo Boton 3:42 Shot Shot Shot 2:39 Muchachita 2:02 Ya LLegan 2:43 Que Pasa 2:19 Be Bop Ska 2:01 Un Minuto
Ooh wee.....after the rockabilly albume "Good Luck, Good friends and Good Rockin’", a 4 track EP with Rock´n´Roll songs in spanish, the swingin "Get Set Go", and the punk´n´roll albums "Destination Now" and "You didn´t come to my funeral" ,
the Spanish NU NILES are back with a all spanish record: SIN RENDICIÓN !
They have their own punk´n´roll style, sometimes leanin more towards rock/punk, sometimes more rockabilly, sometimes swingin (check out the song "Be Bop Ska" with horn section).
3 of the songs are known from previous albums, here are the spanish versions of "Shot Shot Shot" (from the "funeral" album...check out the video on youtube!), Tramposo Y Mentiroso (Cheat and a liar...one of my favorites from the Destination Now album), and Que Pasa from the "old days".
More different instruments are styles are mixed on this album (than on previous releases), fun to listen to it!
recommended to open minded rock´n´rollers and to all fans of punk n roll!
check it out:
CD available from:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thenuniles
official press text:
The
title of the LP and one of the tracks means No Surrender, and it just might be
the Nu Niles’ most eagerly awaited record yet. It was recorded and mixed in
Barcelona in the Meteosat studios, mastered by Mike Mariconda in Gijon’s
Estudios Perotti, and produced by Mario Cobo, and is impossible to categorise.
Or maybe not impossible if “Nu Niles Sound” is a category, because it feeds off
all the Nu Niles influences, tips a hat at all their favourite musicians, and
mixes the whole thing all up in the Nu Niles’ cocktail shaker.
Eleven self-penned tracks – “Tramposo y Mentiroso” and “Shot Shot Shot” are
Spanish versions of tracks from previous albums, “Qué Pasa” is a re-working of a
song from their debut album and on their cover of the legendary Barcelona
Psychobilly/Neo-Rockabilly band The Brioles’ number “Be Bop Ska” the brass
section adds yet another touch of variety to an album that’s already full of
stylistic twists and turns.
The result is a record which is something special for anyone who thinks they
know what to expect from Spanish rock music. It’s subtle but basic - a cool
breeze through the national rock and roll scene. It’s full of unforgettable and
surprising tracks like “Perdido” “No Lo Vi Venir” “Eso Si Que No” and “Un Solo
Boton”.
Euphoric. Rewarding. Sweat-drenched. Hard-hitting. Smooth. Wild. Tough but
tender. Softly aggressive … it’ll knock you out. They’ve made something that
only the Nu Niles could have made. Because of what they represent. Because of
all they’ve done. And, mainly, because of what they are – a superb rock and roll
band we can finally hear in Spanish. Well ain’t we the lucky ones?
Right from the moment they first formed in1996, The Nu Niles have been playing
the music they love. They started as a pure rockabilly band when that idea was
totally anti-fashion, and probably one of the most underground things a band
could be doing. They kept evolving until they found the unique Nu Niles sound of
today – a mixture of basic Rock and Roll, Rockabilly, Surf, Punk, Ska, TexMex
and Spaghetti Western themes, which somehow creates a solid whole.
Their proper debut is an acknowledged classic of Spanish rockabilly, and an LP
that has become a reference point for all lovers of the style: what else could
we be talking about than Good Luck, Good friends and Good Rockin’ (PART records,
1998)? A few years down the line, with the current line-up in place, they
reinvented themselves under the banner of “Authentic 50’s Punk” on an LP packed
with a variety of influences and an energy and sound leaning more towards
greased-back garage-punk, opening them up to a more varied audience. Destination
Now was like a blast of fresh air for anyone hearing the band for the first
time. It’s something of a collector’s item among many lovers of Rock ‘n’ Roll,
touching a variety of styles and genres without ever settling on any single one.
It would have been easy for the band to repeat the formula on their next record
You Didn’t Come to My Funeral (El Toro Records 2007) but instead they kept on
pushing and under he capable guidance of Mike Mariconda (Raunch Hands, Devil
Dogs, The Vancouvers) they made a rock ‘n’ roll record that took a lot more
risks and managed to be a lot more raw, while at the same time being more mature
in terms of song-writing and arrangements. Around this time, the band came up
with the idea of doing a whole album in Spanish, deciding to record it during
the Funeral sessions.
The Nu Niles have more than ten European tours to their name and two on the West
coast of the USA as well as having played at the most prestigious rockabilly/rock
‘n’ roll festivals in the world. (Let’s see: Viva Las Vegas (USA ’02), Greenbay
(USA ´03 and ‘05), Hemsby (UK ’98 & ’01), Rockin’ Rollin’ Walldorf (Germany
’00), Summer Jamboree (Italy ’04), Psychomeeting (Spain, ’05), Hollywood
Showdown (USA ’05 and '07) Rockabilly Bombardment (Austria '08) and too many
others to mention.
So it would be pretty safe to say that this is a band with a solid live
reputation who are more ready than ever to take the stage (their natural habitat)
to present the songs from their new album, Sin Rendición.