Nick Piunti and The Complicated Men

Bottle It (Single)

Jem Records

Nick and the Men return with a new single that takes aim at the mundanity of culture, the net, and the radio. There are too many distractions on the net. The radio plays the same boring songs over and over. Media culture reduces people's choices and tries to normalize ideas by repeating them, all to make us conform. The singer also complains he has too much time on his hands, which makes him mull all of this over, then tells us to just be ourselves. All of this sounds like a great Fountains Of Wayne song Adam Schlesinger never got to write, but it's all Nick’s own, and wonderful, particularly what he sings about the radio. So if you want a good way to cure frustration, this song is it.

Andrea Weiss