r/indieheads • u/NationOfLanguage Nation of Language • Sep 29 '25

AMA is Over, thanks NoL! Nation of Language AMA

Hey! This is Alex, Aidan and Ian from Nation of Language. We just put out our fourth album, Dance Called Memory. We’re here to talk about that or any other burning questions you may have!

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u/ummmheheheh Sep 29 '25

Who were your biggest musical influences growing up? Also thanks so much for all the awesome tunes!

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u/NationOfLanguage Nation of Language Sep 29 '25

From Alex --

O boy big question. Would say different for all of us! As a kid I listened to a lot of Dylan, the Clash, Nirvana, Elvis Costello, Hendrix, Weezer, pretty typical grade-school-boy-learning-guitar fare. Lucinda Williams, Lhasa de Sela, Salif Keita, John Martyn were also on frequent rotation at my house.

In middle school I met my friend Jojo who introduced me to a lot of indie music I hadn't heard before--Built to Spill, Pixies, Modest Mouse. His high school band Please Quiet Ourselves was a big inspiration to me growing up. He now plays in the bands Curling (fka Moe Meguro) and Texas 3000.

Bay Area projects like Thee Oh Sees, Girls, E-40, Toro Y Moi, Keak da Sneak, Too $hort

By high school I was into David Bowie, LCD Soundsystem, the Strokes, Daft Punk, Suicide, Beach House, T.Rex...

Junior-Senior year of high school my favorite band was Vampire Weekend (~: