Nurses
Artist: Nurses
Hails from: Portland, OR
Musical Style: Indie, Pop, Experimental
For Fans of: Built to Spill, Clinic, MGMT
Why you should check them out:
An amalgam of indie rock and psychedelic experimentation, the Portland, Oregon trio’s songs are saturated with repeating rhythms and delicate layering, obtaining the feeling of both sparsity and hidden abundance with great resonating effect.
Background Check:
Listening to Nurses is like overhearing conversation between three close friends – no one instrument dominates each line, and all respond with a familiarity and closeness only obtainable by those who spend a considerable amount of time together.
At it’s center, Nurses has always been the project of John Bowers and Aaron Chapman, tracing back to a friendship forged in middle school in their hometown of Idaho Falls. And while the duo both called Idaho, California, and Illinois home for some time, it wasn’t until an impulsive move to Portland, Oregon that Nurses was made complete with the addition of James Mitchell as percussionist and roommate.
Self recorded in an old attic within their shared living space, the trio’s new full length, Apple’s Acre, boasts a fiercely creative and yet accessible sound made complete with Chapman’s soaring vocals and the constantly unraveling layers of instrumentation. While their music is difficult to clearly pinpoint, their songs contain a decisively ethereal and haunting presence, balanced by reoccurring vocal lines and rhythms that remain audible in your mind far after the song has concluded. As they stand now, Nurses are already an anomaly among the masses of newly emerging artists, and will no doubt continue to grow in stature as their record reaches more and more listeners on their current National tour.
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