NOUVELLAS: Nouvellas – 2009 – Album review

NOUVELLAS: Nouvellas – 2009 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Baby You Change Your Mind – Satisfied - I Can’t Take It – These Days Are Gone - Reputation
SOUNDBITE: “I’m not your dirty little secret/ I’m not around just when you need it”
RATING: 5/5
Hot damn! I’ve been waiting on this since I first heard Nouvellas a couple of years back with what was to become their first single Satisfied and, indeed, the driving Stax rhythms-meets-60s garage-rock approach of that track (the second on this album) is utterly representative of the sound of a band who rose from the ashes of more conventional New York soul/funk outfit The Dansettes. Nouvellas stand out from the rest of the retro soul-influenced crowd for three main reasons
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NOUVELLAS: ‘Nouvellas’ LP – Details + tracklist

NOUVELLAS: ‘Nouvellas’ LP – Details + tracklist
Man, I’ve been gagging for this to come out since I first heard the band’s debut single Satisfied. They’ve been described as ‘Dusty Springfield backed by The Yardbirds’ and ‘The Rolling Stones fronted by a woman’ though neither of these analogies convey the fact that there are two female lead singers nor the fact that there’s a heavy soul/ funk influence in the band’s syncopated rhythms which neither The Yardbirds or The Stones ever possessed. If you imagine a sixties garage rock band with two girl singers that performs sixties funk/ soul you’re ballpark.

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