New Bad Things

What began being a one-off from like-minded restaurant dwellers in Portland, OR, swelled into among the Rose City’s longest-lasting efforts towards the indie rock and roll globe. David French, Luke Hollywood, Christine Denkwelter, Matthew Hattie Hein, and Mattiey Gaunt produced in 1992 to accomplish a one-time starting gig for Sebadoh. They shortly documented a full-length record, Freewheel!, for regional indie label Chocolate Ass Information and became a distinctive collective of songwriters gelling their disparate preferences into one lo-fi occasionally noisy post-punk audio. Society implemented on Lissy’s U.K. in 1994, as well as the band begun to drift to a far more slop pop audio. NBD released Ennui Use 1997 and bade farewell to vocalist Hein, who still left to pursue a single profession. An alternative-takes record, C-sides, premiered in 1999. French afterwards departed to try out in Wallpaper.