Band - Nervous Nellie

Inside, on the record, the music is like the flutter of wild geese, that two pairs of brothers boisterously crosshatched and mimeographed with pencil onto a Swedish sky of lightblue carbon paper, sprinkled with feather clouds. Inside, on the record, the bellbottoms-pop from Skargarden radiates that weightless melancholic enthusiasm native to the Scanadanvian songwriter. Inside on the record folk, pop and punk citations engage like cogs inside a musical time machine - a shuttleservice between yesterday and the day after tomorrow. Inside, on record, everything around is as familiar as good friends - friends who should actually be brothers as well: John Flansburgh & John Linnel (They Might Be Giants), Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel (Simon & Garfunkel), Brian Ritchie & Victor De Lorenzo (Violent Femmes).

Brothers keep the doors open when laughing and crying. Brothers keep the doors open because when brothers laugh and cry together, it's not embarrasing. Maybe that is solely what makes NERVOUS NELLIE marvelous. Maybe NERVOUS NELLIE are solely marvelous because they let us laugh and cry without indignity.