Mayhap you've heard of Nuzzle before, or the name rings a bell? That's because Nuzzle isn't a new band at all. The LA-area based band were active between 1992 and 2001, and are a prime example of the emo scene of that decade, early emo that was an offshoot of post-punk/hardcore– think Sunny Day Real Estate or Texas Is The Reason. Well before the 2000s when mainstream emo broke big on Robert Smith cosplay, voices cracking, and trips to Hot Topic.
Why am I telling you all this. You know it already, right? Well, we're here now chatting with each other because Nuzzle has got something for us coming soon: No Love Like That: Stanford Sessions 1997.
The album, due out 09 Jun 2023, features eight previously unreleased recordings, remastered using today's tech, and ready to please your ears.
As the band describes:
Originally recorded for Die Young Stay Pretty (a shortly lived Sub Pop subsidiary), these previously unreleased recordings became the stuff of lore for fans of 90s west coast indie music. Essentially a demo and precursor to Nuzzle's 1999 LP San Lorenzo's Blues, these tracks are raw, energetic, and representative of Nuzzle's live shows…
…Nuzzle never returned to the Stanford studio for a final mixing so (Andy) Radin (engineer on the album) labeled his cassette copy ‘Nuzzle Rough Mixes' and shelved the project while the band continued to play shows up and down the CA coast in 1997 and 1998.
Bassist Simon Fabela adds:
We re-recorded the Stanford songs with Jeff Pinn from Zilla/Hyde Street Studios in an abandoned, supposedly haunted, half-way house in San Jose. That became San Lorenzo's Blues and was released in 1999 on Troubleman Unlimited.
And so while you may have heard these tracks before, you haven't heard them like this.
Nuzzle has already released the track “Daedalus and Us”, but now TGEFM is stoked to premiere the next remastered single, “If Left to Our Own Devices”.
The album will be out in June via Solid Brass Records, and will be released as a digital download and limited edition vinyl. You can preorder it over at the Nuzzle Bandcamp page.
Links:
solidbrassrecords.com
instagram.com/solidbrassrecs
instagram.com/nuzzleband
nuzzleband.bandcamp.com
the white drew carey (aka – Jeff Sorley) is the founder and head editor of TGEFM. He's lived (outside of) Chicago, Madison WI, (ugh) Penn State, Lyon FR, Oxford UK, central New Jersey, and now within earshot of SFO in the Bay Area. When not scouring the web for more great bands and labels to post about, he also spends time drawing (mostly) silly sci-fi and anime stuff under the name Asplenia Studios.