Category: Laban, Nate & Sam Hill
Seacoast Online names Thrift Store Ransom and Nate Laban & Sam Hill among their top local albums of 2014
Thrift Store Ransom – “Thrift Store Ransom”
Thrift Store Ransom started as an RPM project, and turned into a full-fledged “thing” that wound up being picked up by Rhode Island-based record label, “75-or-Less.” Not too shabby. My favorite part of this project is the collaboration between frontman Eric Ott and his teenaged daughter, Lindsay. She wrote several of the songs included on the effort, including “Moonshine,” one of the year’s finest penned tunes, hands down.
Nate Laban & Sam Hill – “Nate Laban & Sam Hill”
Nate Laban is simply the best punk-folker on the planet. His brand of music is somewhere in the vein of Elvis Costello hanging with the Clash – pumping out jam after jam. “Nate Laban & Sam Hill” does not venture away from that recipe at all. And why would one want to? So good. So aggressive. So feisty.
All 19 of the 2014 Releases
Nate Laban and Sam Hill at Fury’s Publick House
with Mr Personality
Fury’s Publick House
Dover, NH
9pm
75OL-189 Nate Laban & Sam Hill – Self Titled CD
75OL-189 Nate Laban & Sam Hill – Self Titled CD
$8.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1 Hypnotherapy
2 Autumn on a Beach
3 Hometown Shame
4 Sinister
5 Shoot for Victory
6 Garbage Town
7 Pills
8 Good Life
9 Fat Camp
10 Tonight
11 Insufficient Funds Since 1975
Nate Laban & Sam Hill is the debut release from the band. It is an 11 song introduction. The songs are a collection of stories and characters from every day working class New Hampshire (from which they hail). There are songs about genuine alien abduction, teen struggle, real fat camps, as well as fat camps of the mind. In this record Nate takes on The Devil, which is Sam Hill and all the things he is able to conjure. What is to come, and the sound the future holds depends on the outcome of this battle. Listen carefully.