Kevin Bronson on November 6th, 2015

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“One day we’ll run out of time / One day we’ll run out of chances / to find out who we are and why,” Brian Karscig sings in “Out Run the Animal,” the opening track of the Nervous Wreckords’ new EP. For Karscig, time has not run out. The onetime guitarist in Louis XIV (you remember “Finding Out True Love Is Blind” from 10 long years ago, right?), Karscig launched the Nervous Wreckords with 2011’s “Valuminum” and 2013’s “Let Them All Talk.” The new EP is titled “The Nervous Wreckord (Part I)”, out today, and finds him shifting deftly between the modern alt-rock of the opening single to the barroom stomp of “Crazy Drugs,” then to the vintage, scratchy guitar-pop of “This Won’t Be the Same” and the soulful “Two of Us.” Karscig recorded the EP in his own Studio Bee in San Diego, which he built to capture “the spontaneity and recording while I was writing,” he says. “I’m a recluse when it comes to creating and can be very self-conscious with people hearing the music before it’s at a spot where I feel comfortable sharing it.” Still, Part I (five more songs will follow in Part 2) features contributions from Mark Stoermer and Dave Keuning of the Killers, Louis XIV’s onetime tourmates. (Karscig recently joined them to cover the Louis XIV single as well). Jake Najor, whose many credits include TV On The Radio, Kelis, Karl Denson, Big Daddy Kane and Aloe Blacc, drums on seven of the Nervous Wreckords’ new tracks. Karscig is still outrunning the animal, and embracing his classic influences.

||| Stream: “The Nervous Wreckord (Part I)”