The One & Nines – Make It Easy
Pretty rare that I get packages that I haven’t asked for at KPFK, even rarer that those packages include vinyl. So when I got a few 7″‘s from Brooklyn’s Cotter Records, I was pretty gassed. The One & Nines are a big group (11 peeps!) from the New Jersey area who play a nice mix of roadhouse Rock’n’Roll and Soul. They get firmly in the pocket on “Make It Easy” a nice gritty bit of modern soul showcasing Vera Sousa’s sultry singing and a super dirty (musically speaking) breakdown with the guitar and background voices that gets even dirtier late in the song when everybody joins in. That sound is so good it really makes me wish they had released an instrumental of this too. Judging from the band’s website it looks like they are working on a full-length LP for release sometime in 2012. If even half of it is as good as “Make It Easy” you’re gonna be hearing a lot of The One & Nines this year on Melting Pot.