The Nico Missile
Our ol’ pal Ricky Hamilton, operator of the independent imprint Quality Time Records, presents us with the latest single & visual from The Nico Missile with the cash on the barrel-head, son style of rocking stronk-“Put It On the Table”, off their upcoming 8 Ways To Be Infected EP. Shot in a Cleveland, Ohio basement in by Bunny Maria S. & edited by Carter Luckfield; Ricky & The Nico Missile bust out their biggest arsenal of ornory dissonance that is complimented by equally erratic visuals that makes the audience feel privy to an underground event. Not even bothering to clock-in above the one minute mark, the Cleveland bunch have no time for elaborate excesses but rather favor the succinct form of rambunctious rock that functions out of a short, scuzzy & sweet economic style.
The Nico Missile takes you to their little underground on the super-amped up anthem of anarchic urges & exasperated expressions with “Put It On The Table”. Ricky, Marty & Carter are seen performing in a space surrounded by brick walls & chain link fence separators that only seem to further propel the action into a barely controllable anarchic disarray of enthusiastic energy. Bathed in an ominous red light that saturates everything around the band, The Nico Missile rises up to their push the red button already attitude where the distortion is dealt like a collateral weight of mutually asserted destruction. The reiterations of “tell me” & “tell me what you want” ask about the desires of others, as The Nico Missile aims to please by serving up a dinner table with a cacophony that is well over the legal limit and could incite a riot in just a swift 56 seconds of time.
Ricky Hamilton shared the following thoughts on the video, the new record and their plans for summer 2017:
“Put It On The Table was filmed by Bunny Maria S and edited by Carter Luckfield (Fascinating, Blackbear + the Surf Bums, Dionysian Mystery and The Sight.) We filmed it in a basement on Lorain Avenue on the west side of Cleveland. The space is below local musician, artist, and poet Ra Washington’s new shop. We chose to base the video on the dark aesthetic of the lyrics and guitar tones rather than any narrative structure. This was by design to capture the chaos of the times leading up to the song being written. Although it isn’t political it reflects the crushing nihilism of the current times and was recorded only weeks before the election while we were fresh off a west coast tour. At that time we were focused on harnessing the sound we had developed as a three piece with me on drums and singing rather than just singing. Our future plans include adding a drummer and my return to fronting the band. Our newest EP is called 8 Ways To Be Infected and will be released soon on Quality Time Records. Currently our other bands have LP’s coming out including Shagg’s debut 12″ 45rpm and Fascinating’s second LP—Picture This—so we may not tour 8 Ways To Be Infected outside of Ohio at first but eventually I’d like to take it somewhere exotic, potentially Japan.
