Dig Myself a Hole

DIG MYSELF A HOLE

I caught the hit by the Nails, “88 Lines About 44 Girls” on YouTube, and it really is a hoot; but their follow-up “list” song on Dangerous Dreams, “Things You Left Behind” is every bit as good. At one point, they even break down the “fourth wall”: “A dozen contraceptive sponges / Anyone here got a rhyme for sponges?”. Other highlights from the album are the opening song, “Dig Myself a Hole”; and on “Voices”, they come up with a religious-themed song (I seem to have a lot of those in recent Notes) – Moses (among others) insists that “He talked to me!”. The Nails remind me of the Hives in their ability to generate infectious grooves in an offbeat way.

(March 2013)