2018 Contenders: Get Nude & Party!

I first came across today's artist when they were played on Ricky Ross's country show on BBC Radio Scotland (which I've discovered has two or three unmissable shows when it comes to discovering new acts I dig). Ricky introduced The Nude Party as an Americana band, and I suppose that may be the genre they want to belong to, but to me they just sound like the Rolling Stones, maybe with a dollop of Jonathan Richman.

When was the last time you heard a young band so in debt to the Stones? Back in the 90s, Primal Scream and The Black Crowes came very close to walking around in Mick & Keef's shoes for a while, but I can't think of many 21st Century Stones imitators. The Nude Party sound like they stayed up all night smoking their dad's (grandad's) old Stones joints and then hit the studio at the crack of dawn to have fun. There's a lot of offbeat humour in this album, and touches of psychedelia in a couple of the tracks... plus some sage advice to anyone thinking of joining a band in the present musical climate...

You’ll never make enough money

And no one cares about the things you say

You’re gonna wake up someday

And you’ll wish you got a job

Spend half your life in that Chevrolet

Driving up and down the freeway

Someday when you’re too old to play

Man, you’ll wish you got a job