The City on Film

Bob Nanna offers earned a significant reputation like a founding person in two noted and influential rings, emo pioneers Braid as well as the more pop-oriented Hey Mercedes, however the Town on Film marked Nanna’s 1st effort to hit from his own. Nanna started recording solo materials in 1997 during downtime while Braid had been on the highway, nonetheless it wasn’t before latter times of Hey Mercedes that he started writing and saving music with a watch toward developing a different musical identification for the music. While barely abandoning rock and roll & roll, along with his music because the Town on Film Nanna presented into the combine components of alt-country as well as the impact of songwriters like Jeff Buckley and Morrissey. In 2004, Nanna released his initial EP because the Town on Film, a six-song disk known as I’d Rather End up being Wine Drunk, implemented shortly after by way of a divide EP using the Novi Divide titled THE OCEAN Was Angry That Time, My Close friends. In 2005, after Hey Mercedes split up, Nanna released the very first full record from the town on Film, In Formal Launch, released through Grand Fraud Fall, and another EP implemented later in the entire year, American Journal. Nanna soon started taking the town on Film on the highway, using a moving lineup of music artists to back again him up or occasionally using preprogrammed digital accompaniment. Nanna also released a blog, THE TOWN on Film Daily, where he started a task to record addresses of 100 of his songs and post them on the web, and a series of brand-new “mini-songs.”