Nicole Atkins & Jim Sclavunos

NICOLE ATKINS & JIM SCLAVUNOS

A study in contrasts, Nicole Atkins and Jim Sclavunos make music that is a perfect synthesis of their eclectic tastes and backgrounds. With up-tempo kraut-rock grooves sitting alongside deconstructed sambas, space-rock confessionals and wistful ballads – the pair’s songs evoke thumbnail intimacies in vast empty spaces. “I think our music sounds like heavy ancient books thrown down to the gutter by gods during a hurricane — in slow motion,” declares Atkins. “Or psychedelic folk tunes written by lonely Martians,” counters Sclavunos.