Art d’Ecco – Head Rush
“Nostalgia’s a powerful drug,” says Canadian neo-glam art rocker Art d’Ecco.
New single ‘Head Rush’ pops a bellyful of nostalgia pills and crashes head on with 70s technicolour glam rock.
Like the whole of the upcoming second Art d’Ecco album ‘In Standard Definition’, ‘Head Rush’ was recorded straight to two-inch tape on a vintage console at producer Colin Stewart’s analogue-heavy studio in Victoria, Canada.
It sounds amazing.
“I wanted all the hallmarks of a classic rock song,” Art d’Ecco says, “the kind of music that used to blast from the kitchen radio at the summer jobs I’d worked at as a teen.”
Every trick in the book is definitely in there, from hand claps and Queen-style backing vocals to glammed-up guitar solos and a Marc Bolan-esque vocal delivery.
If all that sounds contrived and a bit ‘T-Rex covers band’, it’s not. At all. It sounds incredible, like a New York Dolls for the 21st century. The Roxy Music-style horn section that turbo-powers the chorus is simply joyous.
It’s a celebration of nostalgia’s sugary charms, how music from the past, especially from your teen years, can bathe you in a comforting, candy-floss glow of happiness, an escape from the troubles of the right now.
So young
So free
I’m right back where I wanna be
If it’s all right with you
Will you let me stay here a little while?
I need it more than you’ll ever know
Go on, pop the nostalgia pill. You’ll have a huge smile on your face for the entire three minutes and three seconds.
‘In Standard Definition’ is released on 23 April via Paper Bag Records.
Jamie Summerfield
