"A mutant blend of Beatle-esque pop, hip-hop and punk that's fucked up in a pretty cool way"
For some inexplicable reason I thought of this song today. A perennial fixture on mixtapes/CDs I'd made for friends in the years since its release in 1998, it would invariably be greeted with the response: 'Wow, this is great... know anymore about them?'
No, I didn't. I tracked the CD single down after it was championed on GLR - probably by Gary Crowley, possibly someone else.
A recent bit of digging reveals the band - two guys from New Jersey and a Brit - were briefly signed to Polydor and dropped before they could release their first album, Nightmerica. Alas, the download links to the band's other material here are now out of date, but Nightmerica is now available via CD Baby.Having listened to the samples, possibly I'm on safer ground where the hip-hop gives way to 'Beatles-on-weed-with-synths'. But Now, to these ears, was and remains a standalone, if unfairly obscure, classic.
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