Jay Vibbert (L) and Seth Sparks (R) are Jupiter Is My Hard Drive
If you like your local music to be filled with humor and catchy pop hooks, with an electronic flair but plenty of guitars in the mix, you’ll want to check out User Manual, the new album from East Nashville’s Jupiter Is My Hard Drive.
Jupiter Is My Hard Drive, or JimHD, is made up of Jay Vibbert and Seth Sparks. JimHD started as a side project for the two, who are both members of the band Nolido. “We wanted to experiment and play around with different sounds,” says Sparks. “But JimHD kind of developed a life of its own, to the point that we now spend most of our time recording.”
The full length of User Manual’s 22 tracks sees the band jump genres playfully and confidently, with mellow electro-ballads, three-chord punk, spacey electronic instrumentals and solid synth-pop all getting their time on the album. The genre-jumping and sense of humor so prevalent on User Manual makes JimHD sound something like a less vulgar, southern version of early Ween – and two of the songs in particular (“Sand Trap Aside” and “Stupid Party”) are highly reminiscent of the boys from New Hope. For those of you who aren’t enthralled by a Ween comparison, it’s worth noting that there is plenty of music on User Manual that will please fans of acts like Devo (“We’re Waiting”), The Breeders (“Boxes”), Modest Mouse (“Newman”) and John Vanderslice (“How to Travel at Light Speed (And Not Age a Single Day)”).
The Jupiter Is My Hard Drive page at Bandcamp.com also features their first album, Brave New World. Both are available to listen for free there, or you can pay what you wish (In Rainbows-style) and download all the tracks to take with you wherever you go. Either way, these East Nashville residents are worth checking out – and don’t be surprised if you catch yourself humming “Miami” for days afterward!
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Love the local music scene, I’ll have to check this out. Thanks for the info.