Nihilistic Easyrider - Deluxe Edition

Nihilistic Easyrider – DELUXE EDITION
Label: Run For Cover Records
Format: LP

Nihilistic Easyrider is the genre-hopping passion project of Jacob Duarte (Narrow Head), and DELUXE EDITION plays like a mixtape of Duarte’s own musical coming-of-age. These tracks span years of songwriting and draw from a broad well of influence—Y2K-era emo, glossy pop-punk, sludgy alt-rock, and jangly, harmony-rich ’90s pop.

But this isn’t a solo record in the traditional sense. Duarte enlists collaborators like Carson Wilcox (Narrow Head), Graham Hunt, and Allegra Weingarten and Ella Friedman (Momma), building out a sonic universe as emotionally nuanced as it is stylistically bold.

Songs like “Getaway Plan” and “Well Kept Secret” are steeped in themes of longing, brain-fogged nostalgia, and the awkward beauty of growing up and spinning out. These are deeply personal tracks, filled with weird textures—piano stabs, hazy synths, scrappy acoustic guitars, and turn-of-the-century radio rock DNA.

At its core, DELUXE EDITION is Duarte’s musical diary: scrappy, sincere, emotionally rich, and full of hooks. If Narrow Head captures the outburst, Nihilistic Easyrider captures the quiet reflection afterward.