The Seduction of Strange

It’s a tune of seduction, yet what seduces me is the music. Nathan Murphy picks out the tune on the guitar under Brent McKay’s initial chapter of the femme fatale story. Then Erik Nordin thumps out a building, driving rhythm which doesn’t just cheaply reach some high point like any other rock song. No, when Nordin reaches that climatic part of the chorus, that’s when he throws into the syncopated fills with almost jazz-like sensibility. The Strange’s song, “Texas,” ostensibly is just about the seduction of a girl, but musically this band seduces you rhythmically and melodically. Check out their 2006 self-titled disc, and you may just find yourself accusing them of romancing your heart’s beat, the pulse pushing your foot to tap the floor, your head to sway, and your arms to break out into air drum flailing beyond your control.

Thanks to the Strange for the review CD.