Noir Disco
Share video for, “Settin’ Sons”
Release debut album: NOW! 2073
via Terrible Records
The Chicago-based project of brothers, Nolan and Carter Dickson, Noir Disco, are today sharing the video for “Settin’ Sons” alongside the release of their debut album, NOW! 2073 which is out now via Terrible Records (Hubert Lenoir, The Voidz). The new single which closes the album follows previous support from Brooklyn Vegan, Northern Transmissions, Clash, Pigeons and Planes and more. It further cements the trio’s spellbinding take on punk, psych-rock, indie-rock and electronica forging a truly unique sound.
Noir Disco has created this lasting ensemble, a mesmeric journey that you embrace whole-heartedly. This really is a flawless hit, immediately starting with this hypnotic sway and immersive rhythmic passages. This shimmering acoustic guitar commences the track before we are greeted with intimate vocal melodies and rich and clear lyrics. The lyrics alongside the distinct tonality of the track just ambush the audience with this array of affection, nostalgic patterns, and warm melodies push the arrangement further into its addictive attributes.
“Settin’ Sons,” is described as opening with spangled acoustic guitar before erupting into something bigger introducing warbling electric guitar and programmed drum beats. It finds the trio leaning into their psych-rock-adjacent sounds more than anywhere else on the record, producing one of its more tender, introspective moments.
Speaking about the making of the new single, the band explains: “The song is Carter’s take on what NOW! 2073 opening track ‘workCHANGEchangeWORK’ means to him. Carter wrote “Settin’ Sons” on his guitar and then began recording it with Henry, after which Nolan, who happened to take mushrooms about an hour before they started recording, stumbled upon the guitar takes and began to add every other instrument without thinking about it, to which Carter & Henry came home, looped the improvs then structured the song. Carter’s vocal recording process on Settin Sons was a special moment for the band because it was then we realized that Carter is Rocky, Nolan is Mick and Henry is Pauly, characters from the American classic movie series Rocky.”
The brothers who sing and play alongside their friend, Henry Miller have developed something of a cult following over the year; NOW! 2073 marks their grandest project yet, signposting the band’s evolution into a new freeform way of creating. Taking direct inspiration from artists like David Bowie, Kate Bush and The Doors, the new music similarly submerges you in cartoonish art-pop landscapes (think “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” if it was made by Arcade Fire during their Reflektor era) that seem to evolve in real-time.
The Dickson brother grew up in a disciplined Catholic household in the Chicago suburbs. When they weren’t goofing around, delivering hymns like Les Misérables songs in church, the pair were practicing as part of a triathlon team. It’s fair to say the discipline involved in both religion and sports was sometimes difficult to endure. “Catholicism and elite athletics are two very painful scenarios for a child to go through,” Nolan explains, “but I would say it’s where we got our knack for fantasy because our imagination allowed us to escape from reality.”
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