David Nance Group Peaced And Slightly Pulverized

David Nance had been writing songs and recording them on the cheap for years before 2016's More Than Enough earned him a well-deserved cult following. But while Nance initially caught the attention of discriminating music fans for his songwriting, he seems to be more interested in showing off his guitar heroics on 2018's Peaced and Slightly Pulverized, a raw and raucous exercise in no-frills hard rock recorded in someone's basement in a single day. Nance wrote the seven tunes on Peaced and Slightly Pulverized, and they're solid work, especially the moody "When I Saw You Last Night" and the languid but potent "110 Blues." But this material seems to exist primarily as a framework for Nance to stretch out on extended solos, where he reveals a style that splits the difference between Neil Young's primativist noise and Keith Richards' fractured blues, with a bit more slop than either but a similar passion for volume and blissful crunch. It remains to be seen if David Nance is the new guitar