Neptune City

2007 album from the New Jersey singer/songwriter, a native of Neptune City, located a stones throw from fabled Asbury Park. Nicole was that kid slightly out of touch. When her friends were collecting the latest New Kids on the Block album, she was raving about Traffic or Cream. She played for three years with the North Carolina Alt-Country band Los Parasols before making a name for herself as a solo performer on New York City's Anti-Folk scene. Her music ranges far afield: at some times Vaudevillian, at others Psychedelic, a little bit Country, a dash from early musicals, all under a cloud of Pop-Noir, often all coming in the very same song. Atkins writes songs that could have come from an episode of Six Feet Under, or an updating of Grease, as directed by David Lynch.