Hear Disheveled Cuss’ loose and depressive “Oh My God”
Maybe the long arc of Nick Reinhart's career was always bending towards power pop. As the lead singer of mathy Sacramento trio Tera Melos, he displayed the keen sense of melody that many of his band's peers lacked. In the truly unlikely supergroup Big Walnuts Yonder alongside Mike Watt, Nels Cline, and Greg Saunier, Reinhart played with pop choruses, albeit with an oddball sensibility. Now, under the name Disheveled Cuss, he's shooting straight for mid-90s indie, stripping back much of the technical wizardry of his earlier work, replacing it with power-chord choruses and structures that wouldn't seem out of place on Pacific Northwest slacker anthems.