Nodd Morris

Nodd Morris
At 24 years old, Nodd Morris is only now hitting puberty. His voice is coming into its own and he grows in unpredictable spurts. The hair on his upper lip is beginning to darken and he’s sometimes made fun of for being the biggest kid in his class. While performing his music, his confidence has worked its way up making him move to his music like Dave Matthews; only with a bit more rhythm, like a charmed cobra. While several descriptions of his music have been tolerated, the one that stands out in the author’s mind is “Coldplay makes love to Beck while Jack Johnson videotapes.”
Morris’s influences, which he insists range from “The Beatles, to Beck, to Radiohead and everything in between. But nothing outside of that,” can be heard throughout his albums and seen in his live performances. He may have on a clever grin like John, a spazmatic twitch like Yorke, or a zombie beat-driven march like Beck at any given moment.
Born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, Nodd Morris is now based in State College, PA, where he will be finishing up his academic career at Penn State University this year. His degree in Economics, with a minor in International Business, will catapult his capacity to write amazing songs about topics completely irrelevant to his studies.
He’s recorded with producers Marc Frigo (Indigo Girls) and Jimmy Parr (Carly Simon), as well as having Mark Levesque (David Bowie, Seven Mary Three) lay down drums for his debut album “Burning Bridges” (recorded with Parr) which came out in 2007. Morris’s sophomore follow-up “The Movie” (Frigo) is set for release on May 20th, 2009 and is highly anticipated among the cafeteria ladies in the Penn State west dining hall.
“Whatever you’re doing when you first hear Nodd Morris, you will stop and you will listen.” – A&R Select
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