Hearkening back to the days when the American South was inextricably tied to rock ‘n’ roll, Nerd Parade’s The Span of a Life contains the kinds of big sounds and inventive daring that rock music should be about. The songs would, in fact, make the perfect soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s next film — gritty, soulful, searing. Their palate is wide-ranging, as though they went into the studio with a big grab bag of ’70s rock and punk sounds, shook it up really good, and then pulled out pieces at will. But it’s also fresh, not so much stuck in the past as acknowledging a little bit of nostalgia, then moving on in unexpected ways.
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