The Afro Nick has dropped “Get There Before Noon (LA Mix).” It’s like sunshine colliding with a late-night diner, if that diner happened to be on a planet with a perpetually rotating sky. The music bounces, it genuinely does, propelled by the ever-reliable George Athanas’s bass, but it’s Leonardo Genovese’s synths that seem to be holding impromptu conversations with the rest of the band— sometimes echoing, sometimes pushing, never entirely predictable. Like trying to catch a soap bubble: you see where it’s going, but you can’t be totally sure.
The whole “seize the day” theme? It’s not shouted, which I appreciate. It’s more of a gentle nudge, delivered through layers of sound. It’s the feeling you get walking in a forest at midday, dappled with light, a feeling that says, “hey, you’re part of this, you know? And it’s gonna keep moving whether you do or not.” Reminds me a bit of those impressionist paintings where the whole world seems to pulse. Did Monet even know he was low-key rock-n-roll, I wonder?
There’s something refreshingly random about it, this song, in the best way possible. It’s not some tightly packaged product; It’s like opening a box and finding, you know, a rubber chicken, a beautiful postcard of a place you’ve never been, and some really, really cool rocks. All coexisting in delightful, if perplexing, harmony. How do all the little pieces keep clicking together so perfectly? Is it a calculated chaos? Probably. But also, it doesn’t matter.
It feels like listening to the inside of someone’s head after a particularly good afternoon nap and, if that makes no sense to you, then, well… you probably should listen to it. Get there, or somewhere like it, before midday. You just might need to, to actually be free.
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