After releasing two albums of eclectic and textured lo-fi indie rock under the solo project handle youbet, Nick Llobet found a musical kindred spirit in fellow Brooklynite Micah Prussack (Trace Mountains) and invited her into the lineup.
Produced by prior youbet collaborator Katie von Schleicher (Frankie Cosmos, Market), their first album as a duo, youbet, is even more heterogeneous, adding disgruntled punk, damaged folk-rock, and more to the project’s shape-shifting palette. Although there are no direct tributes to these on the album, the band even namechecked influences as far-flung as flamenco and Bernard Herrmann’s score for Vertigo. They open the record with the buzzy, laid-back slacker rock of “Ground Kiss,” a distortion-punctuated…

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