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05-21-10

Madison, WI - The Frequency

Before the release party for Icarus Himself’s excellent new EP, “Mexico,” I thought you could put Led Zeppelin behind singer/songwriter Nick Whetro and his songs would still shrink from any pretense of grandeur. “All my life I’ve been digging holes … Sometimes I say terrible things that I know,” Whetro sings on EP opener “Digging Holes,” which is a pretty good metaphor for how Whetro works musically. He’s a burrower, not an excavator, not a builder of castles in the sky. Show him a picture of a happy family, he’ll eyeball the faded scar on the little girl’s knee and scratch at it until a subcutaneous 2-minute dirge wafts out.

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