Alternative/Indie / Rock
Hailing from Boston, Ma., The New Digital Sound is an emotion altering rock that doesn't quickly allow its' sound to be categorized. Drawing from influences within elektronik and industrial music, Copelinn -- the founder of the band -- seems to almost weave in an out of consciousness with a synth firmly in hand and a guitar or sequencer somewhere within arm's reach. The idea for (t) nds started more than 15 years ago with a psychotic obsession with sound, particularly recording and manipulating it. Early material enlisted the use of broken four track tape decks, CD players, guitar stomp boxes, ...
Alternative/Indie / Rock
Paste Magazine - "On the band's sophomore release, Costello, drummer Matthew Antolick, and a host of new multi-instrumentalists strive to tell such hidden stories, from a minister's calling to assassinate Hitler to an Afghan boy's home-life heroism. Antolick is as illustrative and creative a percussionist as one could ask for - Art Blakey filling in for Levon Helm. Their success lies in that balance between hyper-literacy and a catholic musical sensibility that finds as much gravitas in a clap-along as a plucked guitar."
CNET/download.com - "Much of what's called wrong in indie rock seems to get righted ...