Nova Exclusive LP With Autographed Postcard
A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Purchase includes postcard signed by Mat Kerekes.
Mat Kerekes, founder and vocalist of the band Citizen, has announced his upcoming solo LP called āNovaā, which will be released on August 5, 2022.
The albumās title was inspired by two places - an early 2000s PC game and the state where heās living. Heās been splitting time between his hometown Toledo, Ohio and Woodbridge in North VirginiaāNoVa to locals. A rerelease of the fantasy hack-and-slash game Diablo 2 brought the second iteration with a characterās special attack called āfrost nova.ā The stars had aligned: āNovaā would be the next record.
If this sounds like a shockingly chill way to name a record, thatās the point. The new album is brimming with imagination, humor, romance, balls, and whimsy. āNovaā isnāt a record that feels like our grave, endlessly serious historical moment; itās a record that escapes it.
Kerekes recorded and engineered the record in the basement of his Virginia house, but after tracking drums he discovered a new pet peeve: his own drum style. To redo the drums, he called up his friend, Turnstile drummer Daniel Fang. The pair worked together over two days in Toledo with Steve Warstler, who mixed and mastered the record. At one point, Fang was blasting out drum fills while they were taking levels from his kit. Kerekes hit record. The result is track five, a nine-second percussion meltdown titled āDaniel Fang.ā āI thought it was funny, so I put it on the record,ā shrugs Kerekes.
āNovaā isnāt an essential, high-brow distillation of a theme, angle, or topic. Itās just good, fun music, plain and simple. In an industry full of on-the-nose branding, marketing, and sales of ideas, identities, and experiences, Nova feels like the anti-record; it feels honest and real.
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A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Purchase includes postcard signed by Mat Kerekes.
Mat Kerekes, founder and vocalist of the band Citizen, has announced his upcoming solo LP called āNovaā, which will be released on August 5, 2022.
The albumās title was inspired by two places - an early 2000s PC game and the state where heās living. Heās been splitting time between his hometown Toledo, Ohio and Woodbridge in North VirginiaāNoVa to locals. A rerelease of the fantasy hack-and-slash game Diablo 2 brought the second iteration with a characterās special attack called āfrost nova.ā The stars had aligned: āNovaā would be the next record.
If this sounds like a shockingly chill way to name a record, thatās the point. The new album is brimming with imagination, humor, romance, balls, and whimsy. āNovaā isnāt a record that feels like our grave, endlessly serious historical moment; itās a record that escapes it.
Kerekes recorded and engineered the record in the basement of his Virginia house, but after tracking drums he discovered a new pet peeve: his own drum style. To redo the drums, he called up his friend, Turnstile drummer Daniel Fang. The pair worked together over two days in Toledo with Steve Warstler, who mixed and mastered the record. At one point, Fang was blasting out drum fills while they were taking levels from his kit. Kerekes hit record. The result is track five, a nine-second percussion meltdown titled āDaniel Fang.ā āI thought it was funny, so I put it on the record,ā shrugs Kerekes.
āNovaā isnāt an essential, high-brow distillation of a theme, angle, or topic. Itās just good, fun music, plain and simple. In an industry full of on-the-nose branding, marketing, and sales of ideas, identities, and experiences, Nova feels like the anti-record; it feels honest and real.
