Affected noises and guitar lines dance around the mist creating a
current of shiny sounds, all underlined by a pulse of Rock and Roll.
Electric Sunset is a new, solo project from Nic Zwart. The debut
album, Electric Sunset [KLP221] is a distillation of ambient music into
spiky pop songs with loud synthetic percussion and muscular bass
lines. Lyrically, the album is a journal of sorts. The descriptions of
loss, love, fear and self discovery coincide with the stops and starts
of moving down the coast from the Pacific Northwest to San Francisco.
Old memories rising through the windshield, new promises
illuminated by headlights. Using synthesizers, guitar, modified samplers
and computers, Zwart recorded this album over the course of
three months in Washington and California.
Nic has toured the US and Europe extensively with his former band,
Desolation Wilderness. Both groups have emerged as expansive
expressions of movement; recordings about new places, the infinite
possibilities afforded by never staying still long enough to take root.
Now, he is primed to take Electric Sunset on the road following
paths already travelled, and creating new ones, existing as an
electric hum on the highway.
''Dig Deerhunter's ambient and propulsive shoegaze? Vivian Girls'
garage-surf riffs? Get 'em both (and more) from Nic Zwart, a studio
whiz ... he piles on the reverb and sprints into the ocean, exulting in
each crashing wave.'' - Spin Magazine
Tracklist
1. Palace
2. Future Dream
3. Morning City
4. Infinity Avenue
5. Here Comes Midnight
6. Soda
7. Relay
8. Last Night on Earth
9. Prayer