Nick Rousseau composes an astounding debut album, "Rest/Unrest"
Labeled as an “honest approach to music making”, we couldn’t possibly agree more. Nick Rousseau’s all new debut album titled Rest/Unrest is one of the most captivating releases we’ve heard in quite some time. Read on for our full featured review of the record below.
Currently based out of Brooklyn, New York, Nick Rousseau’s quickly shown that he can excel at anything he puts his mind to. Assuming the role as a guitar, composer, and bandleader, his intriguingly jazzy debut Rest/Unrest has shot to the top of our personal charts for what we would consider to be the upper echelon of creativity and originality. If you’re looking to expand your musical horizons, stop what you’re doing, because this album is tailored to you.
What we’ll start off this review by saying is that this isn’t the type of record that should be put on shuffle or skipped around on. From start to finish, it’s a cohesive presence that emotionally and emphatically unfolds as the track listing goes on. Clicking play on the title track “Rest/Unrest” and letting it play in full will pay off big time once you come to the climactic ending. There’s no lulls or boring moments, just pure musicianship at its highest form.
Instrumentally speaking, it’s actually pretty difficult to point out a single instrument that we enjoyed the most. Like most jazz music, everyone at certain points gets their moment to shine, which is why from a whole package standpoint, all musicians featured should get their own individual round of applause. There’s just so much to love here and we can already tell we’re going to have to go back in for Round 2 just to decipher what we probably missed on the first go around. Not to say that Rest/Unrest is too dense for the novice listener, rather we can only imagine the album getting better with repeated plays.
Without giving too much else away, we really just want to reiterate once again that there’s something seriously special about this album. Even if Jazz isn’t necessarily your thing, we think this could be the ideal record as an introduction to the genre as a whole. It’s not divisive, the tempo stays relatively fast paced, and there’s a seemingly infinite amount of memorable moments. Plain and simple, you’re going to really enjoy this one.
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