Discovery: The Novaks

Times like these I think I should rename this series of posts “Stuff I Missed the First Time.” Just when I think I’ve discovered a new band, like Newfoundland’s the Novaks, turns out they’ve been around, they were at SXSW, and it’s not as if they haven’t been buzzed like honey in the comb. Or at least they were back in the Pleisticine Epoch of 2005, when the single “No One Quite Like You” was anointed “Coolest Song in the World” by Little Steven and their debut album had them heralded as the Next Big Great White North Thing.

And then things kinda fell apart. Whittled down to the trio of Mick Davis, Mark Neary and Elliot Dicks, the band has spent the last four years in some kind of wilderness. They’re just now ready for a second album, Things Fall Apart, due out May 26 on the Sonic Entertainment Group. Judging from the sound of it (which you may stream, in its entirety, here), the Novaks have made the kind of record Tom Petty can’t anymore, the kind of torpedo-damned rock & roll that’s as lethal and sweet as a Prestone slick in a gearhead’s garage. And Ian McLagan sits in on keys.

Here’s a preview track, courtesy of the fine folks at Pigeon Row.

Visit the Novaks on Myspace.

Under Those Wheels

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Posted by | May 20, 2009 | Music | Comment 

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