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Reviews for Nerd Sexy

Red and Black

"'Nerd Sexy,' provides a variation of music styles blended into a new hybrid of pop music.
....for those who enjoy all music styles, 'Nerd Sexy' will not disappoint. Conley acts as an iPod Shuffle within the 15 songs, never failing to surprise the listener from track to track."

Athens Music Junkie

"7 out of 10. It's a great record to have if you're a Timi fan (or, more likely with the number of bands he's in, a collaborator). Best heard when leaving an Athens venue at 2 in the morning after dancing all night."

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"Quixotic, Adventurous, Unconventional, Vivid, Cross-grain, Daring, Energetic, Playful, Posessed, Careening, Ambidextrous, Chameleonesque, Voraceous Music "



Nerd Sexy is the first-ever solo release by Athens, GA musical fixture Timi Conley. His 18-year music career is known for such award-winning bands as Fuzzy Sprouts, Aqualove and Kite to the Moon, plus tribute acts Abbey Road Live and Ziggy Stardust, the Bowie Tribute.

-About the Album-

The album is an Attention-Deficit collection of imaginative recordings never intended for release. In Conley's own words: "I was just creating, mostly at home, to entertain myself and give my ideas some kind of form... I had no inkling that this would end up as an album..." Conley's lack of filtration allowed him to create candidly without concern for opinion. The tracks are fresh and shot from the hip, and reveal a bare openness usually reserved only for the bathroom mirror.

*******

Stylistically, Conley mixes his experiences playing funky original party music with his schooling of Beatles and Bowie, then adds un-hinged Hendrix-like guitar noise and modern production... drum loops and wild keyboard sounds. The result is a genre-bending work with echoes of a hundred different personalities. With few exceptions, Conley wrote and performed every track, and all instruments, adding to the manic multi-dimensionality of the tracks.

*******

Asked of the influences that inspire Nerd Sexy, Conley spouts, "Well... the '5 Bs'- that's Beatles, Bowie, Beck, Bjork and Beastie Boys, then of course Ween, Outkast, Jonathan Richman, John Lee Hooker, Prince, Human League, Neil Diamond, Eminem, Zepplin, Velvet Underground, B-52s, Flaming Lips.... maybe Esquivel? Sinatra... the list goes on... Guns n Roses, Weezer, Cibo Matto, Iggy Pop, Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, Michael Jackson, Laurie Anderson, M.I.A....you might hear bits of any of those through Nerd Sexy."
TRACK DESCRIPTIONS (by Timi): click play buttons to preview tracks
Track 1: New Boyfriend- Introducing Timi Conley... Super hits. The only problem here is the drum machine had been dipping into some Cuervo Gold and by the time this was recorded, it was falling off of it's drum stool and the hi-hat stand knocked over the guitar, rendering the B-string flat. So it begins. Track 9: Still Vibration: Actually a very sincere song when I am not at play or in some sort of alternate character... the words metaphorically hint about how it feels when you love someone but just keep missing the mark.
Track 2: Te Amo (Gold Tooff)- Let the parade of multiple personalities commence. This song originated as a seldom-performed Fuzzy Sprouts tune called "Diamond Orange"... probably written in 1994 or so when I was listening to John Doe's first solo album. The soulfulness of the original is here replaced by swirly, glittery techno-isms and the outro is hijacked by a tag-team rap of obnoxious microphone pirates.   Track 10: It's Over- I'd just been dumped. Felt like absolute crap. The song came out after losing a game of computer solitaire and I was just slumped into my hand at my desk. How poignant, right? Bad gospel. Pure as it gets.
  Track 3: Words Must Die- Tao Te Spaz Punk conveying the idea that a reflection of something can never equal the thing itself... which paradoxically includes this song.   Track 11: Yellow Duck on a Golden Anvil- 2 very curious young girls consulting a seemingly condemned duck about some random life truths.
  Track 4: Here Come Th' Blues- Originally written by Georgia bluesman Milkweed Thornton, I adapted this song to my style of blues playing and changed a few words, but attempted to capture a raw, vinyl record, old-time feel with the recording.   Track 12: "Are Ya Feelin' the Love?"- Was this recorded with pants on.. or off? Ha ha, right!?!?! Actually this comes out of an Abbey Road Live clip from a concert in front of thousands of people in Louisville, KY. The song was "All You Need Is Love" and it was the finale of our set. Michael Wegner blurted this out to the crowd and I almost fell off the stage. You can hear the actual sound sample in the track.
  Track 5: Sex Dream- uh huh.   Track 13: Can't Get Enuff- Sonic Smorgasbord. Hedonistic party track. Ideally this should be played while eating cake and pizza, texting on a cel phone, having sex and driving 125 mph in a Porsche, all at the same time. With a disco ball.
  Track 6: Hi Skoo- Imaginative little song taking the form a wide-eyed young character who has just graduated High School and is dreaming about big fun and a party with Led Zeppelin.   Track 14: Even Though- Accidental homage to Neil Diamond, one of the greats.
  Track 7: Gettn Bizy- Another Milkweed Thornton composition. Obtuse (as opposed to "straight-up") blues song that gets it's charm by the radical mixing of old-world style and new-fangled technology, plus atmospheric sounds like squawking crows and a tractor trailer truck going by.   Track 15: And Girl...- I wanted to do a modern thing here, like a really mean-spirited rap set to a pretty guitar melody. Combined that with some intimate guy-talking-to-his-girlfriend-while-she-sleeps moments, then break into some R&B. This song manages to be obnoxious and heartfelt at the same time... Epic track.
  Track 8: Help You- 7-second-long sound vignette of helping tones. Loop and repeat as necessary for increased effect.