Snappy Little Numbers / Debt Offensive (2021)
This lingered a little longer than I would have liked as it was released this past December. On my birthday, no less if the Bandcamp release date is accurate. Snappy Little Numbers does a great job of unearthing bands that fit pretty perfectly into my wheelhouse. So much so, that I even forgive them for putting out some of it on tape. Debt Offensive is no slouch in the quality releases department either and Night Court is yet another example of this.
I watched the TV show Night Court a lot as a kid. I'm not sure I really understood all of the jokes, but they had a wacky cast of characters and Yakov Smirnoff as a recurring guest star. Gold. Nervous Birds! One is also gold. They have a lo-fi guitar sound and beat it into submission resulting in song after song just crammed full of catchy hooks.
There are times where I hear Wavves, other times where So Cow feels like a good touchstone and still others where Pavement or Guided By Voices seem to make the most sense. It's an album oddly anchored in early 90s indie rock and early 2010s garage rock, but somehow they mesh perfectly together.
For me, if you put out an album that's this catchy and memorable, I'm going to be a happy guy no matter what fidelity you're recording in or what era has most inspired you. Night Court has done that and it seems that Nervous Birds! Two is already lined up for release really soon. Color me excited to complete the duology.
Night Court - Nervous Birds! One:
https://snappylittlenumbers.bandcamp.com/album/nervous-birds-one
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