Spoils - Nothing for a Man CS

Nothing For A Man by SpoilsIn the mid-90's when the giant wave of post-Nirvana A&R signings crested and broke, Cincinnati, OH experienced a blink-and-you-miss it moment in the sun birthing a sultry, greasy and noise-addled contribution to the Indie Rock lexicon with bands like Afghan Whigs, Ass Ponys, Wussy and compatriots Brainiac. But to say that Cincinnati posseses a "sound" that has any kind of through line is a bit more difficult to place. Instead, the city like the music it produces, is a bit of a liminal zone - straddling the South and the Midwest, concentration of the world's most successful multi-national companies and a startling high poverty index. The music that makes it out feels unplaceable - how did a city of under a million birth Why?, The National, Adrian Belew and John Bender?While so many of the acts named feel like they are in the act of becoming, Spoils, a band formed in 2022 right on the cusp of another wave of creativity in Cincinnati, feels completely the op