Good Night Sleep

Since 1990, the Rochester, NY, trio Nod has written eclectic albums that draw on punk, jazz, {indie pop}, and folk to create a menagerie of intimate and dreamy {art rock}. The group's fifth record, Good Night Sleep, applies a {lo-fi} aesthetic to these multiple genres, from the spacy, meandering Old Hotel to the bluesy fingerings on instrumental tracks like Space Whale. Dragon is a simple, backwards-glancing fairy tale and Walk the Little Man is an odd folk song. Good Night Sleep casts Nod in the backwoods {indie rock} realm of Grandaddy, Little Grizzly, or Mercury Rev. But while Good Night Sleep is a satisfying record, Nod lacks the grandeur of fellow East Coasters Mercury Rev and the Pavement lineage of Californians like Grandaddy and Fiver. ~ Charles Spano, All Music Guide