>Here we are in the middle of the week and not much has changed. If I can be the one to help reassure you that today is indeed a different day from yesterday, then let me do so with a whole new song review that I promise you have never read anywhere else. Today’s spotlight falls on Mr. Nick Zaino, who sent us over a sweet track in anticipation of his Friday night show at the Armory with Joe Kowan and Davina Yannetty (two N’s, two T’s). As someone whose last name has been butchered by a lifetime of substitute teachers, customer servicers and other jerks, I am sensitive to Davina’s plight. Go help a sista (and a Nick Zaino) out.
Nick Zaino – "Bruises”
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Tyler Durden once asked (SPOILER ALERT) well, himself if he wanted to die without any scars. Or was it bruises? Hard to say. The answer is, of course, no. Nick Zaino’s “Bruises” communicated the idea of the bruise well – a recent injury that looks angry and probably hurts a little bit, with a lot more going on under the skin. Zaino’s “Bruises” infer a lot of pain and damage under its initial layers of surface – while the sounds are mostly calm, they almost seethe with underlying tension. The guitar tone is clean and acoustic, but its sense of brooding slow-burn only sees to build the tension to seemingly unbearable limits.
A lead guitar is the only other sound that compliments the objective-yet-maybe-not-so-disconnected essence of the vocal. Zaino’s lyrics tell a story that is made all the more potent by the simple arrangement that is capable of smoldering in its simplicity. The composition and arrangement of “Bruises” tells a contextual story past the surface experience of the sounds.
This is the essence of actual bruises and the musical embodiment of the song “Bruises.” This song has the tough look and the tender feel of a really good, serious bruise that really impresses everyone. And we should be impressed by Zaino’s bruises, because there is, as always, a good story behind them.
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