Nicole Kidman
Mon 8 Mar 2010
My Leaves Are Shaking
Mixing Casiotone For The Painfully Alone‘s sincerity and speedy drum machine beats with Moldy Peaches’ ramshackle insecurity and Daniel Johnston‘s wavering tone of despair, California’s Jon Barba, AKA Nicole Kidman, makes cautiously heart-on-sleeve, scratchy pop music. ‘Thirst For God’ is a speedy attack aiming straight for the heart, and ‘Obsessed’ could have been plucked straight from Johnston’s catalog; its traditional structure with wobbling, soul-crushing lyrics overtake the crunchy guitar at the very last moment. ‘Tyrone’, written and produced with Kevin Greenspon, will stick in your head for days with its short and simple chorus hook. Barba knows a thing or two about simple, succinct pop songs. ‘Miley Is Awesome’ epitomises the girl-crushing guitar-strumming approach and shows Barba’s true talents as a songwriter. Playing regular gigs in LA’s cultural melting pot with the likes of Foot Village and Former Ghosts, Barba has a CD-R and a 7″ pending to add to his collection of cassettes and CDs released on Greenspon’s label Bridgetown Records.
Nicole Kidman- Thirst For God: MP3
Nicole Kidman & Kevin Greenspon- Tyrone: MP3
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