Album Review: Nice Biscuit - Digital Mountain

Nice Biscuit are not playing around. Their debut album Digital Mountain comes with a couple of years of gigging, singles and a recent BIGSOUND festival slot behind it, and they’ve refined their jammy psych-rock into a selection of songs that will no doubt be the soundtrack to this summer.

The Brisbane sextet’s debut album (not something you hear a lot) starts out strong, leading with their single Captain as its first track. With a kosmische-inspired bass line, blissed-out vocals and surprisingly tight rock intervals, it manages to be both familiar and new at the same time, combining the best parts of King Gizzard and Ty Segall into a pop-length banger. The lyrics are appealingly tongue-in-cheek, and they let you know Nice Biscuit aren’t taking themselves too seriously. Digital Mountain gets more ‘60s as it goes - by the time the sixth track, Digital Mountain Sparrow, comes 'round, a slower, more jangly pace is welcome.

The last track, Octopus, carries out the album with whiffs of synthesised jazz flute, as any good psych-rock album should. With their sense for catchy melodies, precise timings and twin vocalists Billie Star and Grace Cuell’s otherworldly harmonies, Nice Biscuit’s debut is guaranteed to knock more than a few socks off.