Blue and green record exploding into shards

Nil Durden
Heads or Tails

Nil Durden plays a kind of rock and roll that draws from years and years of quality English and American music. You’ve got smoking riffs alongside acoustic pluckery, stomp lined up against shine and four songs that smoulder like hot coals.

Each of the four songs has a different angle on Nil’s sound, whether it’s the stomping riffs of ‘Findaway’ that make you want to get up and shake or the chilled-out rock ballad ‘Just To Kiss You Goodnight’, which makes you feel like laying back while you breathe in the emotion.

‘Nothing Right Lately’ takes the indie-chord smothered sound of Pavement’s ‘Summer Babe’ and adds a bit of magnificent rock into the mix to create a steady burner and ‘Dreams and Dimes’ lets the acoustic guitar and bongo’s lead the way.

This is an exceptional EP from a proper song writer and Nil has made all the right choices when selecting the musicians to accompany him on this fine record.

Nil Durden

Written by Fenton on 18th May 2009

Steve Fenton writes in our music, words, and culture categories. He was Editor in Chief for The Mag and covered live music for DV8 Magazine and Spill Magazine. He was often found in venues throughout the UK alongside ace-photographer, Mark Holloway. Steve is also a technical writer and programmer and writes gothic fiction. Steve studied Psychology at OSC, and Anarchy in the UK: A History of Punk from 1976-1978 at the University of Reading.