Member Since: 4/8/2006
Band Website: thequalia.com
Band Members: L. Casteen and collaborators.
Influences: Kraftwerk, New Order, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Cash, REM, Front 242, Ennio Morricone, Nick Cave, Suicide, Depeche Mode, Coil, Giorgio Moroder, Heavy Water Factory, Placebo, Beck, Einsturzende Neubauten, Curve, Autechre, Erasure, Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Beach Boys, B-52's, Nitzer Ebb, Can, Neu, Elton John, David Bowie, Covenant, The Sound, Prince, Queen
If you need all the music you listen to fit perfectly into one category or another, this probably isn't for you.
Sounds Like: "Even without the cowboy metaphors, Nevada's Greatest! is an endlessly fascinating blend of pop influences, unpredictable and unexpected, yet somehow familiar at the same time."
- ReGen Magazine
"It also needs to be said that nearly every song on this album is a radio hit waiting to happen. There isn't a song that isn't incredibly catchy and unique in its own way. The lyrics and thought structures are all inventive as well as the overall atmosphere..."
- Heathen Harvest
"Talented and complicated textures are painted over with a second and third coat of sonic paint that produces a thick layer of synths, guitars, vocals, and beats. Lyrically it’s serious as it tackles prolific topics in the political and social arenas yet also explores robotic cowboys."
- Smother Magazine
"Many of the songs are evocative of "futuristic music" from the early 1980s, like Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, and Afrika Bambataa--yet they're still very fresh and the production is exquisitely modern. I can't recommend them highly enough."
- The Spacing Guild Guide to Good Music
"The music is fantastic, an eclectic mix somewhere between electro-pop and an Ennio Morricone score..."
- Jewelboxing.com
"Nevada's Greatest Man" - Top 10 song of 2006
- voltage
Record Label: WTII Records
Type of Label: Indie