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Bill.<\/a>\u2019s new album is not a casual listen. Simultaneously dense and expansive, the seven-track outing clocks in at just under 27 minutes, but it\u2019s not the kind of LP that warrants an immediate playback. Instead, the Tampa band has put together a record that forces a listener to exhale.<\/p>\n Featuring members of popular art-pop band Hello Joyce<\/a>, bill.\u2019s debut full-length is the most mature and fully-realized collection work that longtime songwriting partners Cameron Grant and Nico Remy have put together.<\/p>\n \u201cIt feels momentous to us,\u201d Grant told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay with Remy adding that bill. (stylized all-lowercase) deliberately worked towards an almost experimental sound that was still rooted in familiar structures.<\/p>\n For fans of bands like They Are Gutting A Body of Water (TAGABOW) or Ovlov, bill.\u2019s strain of rock and roll is prevalent in the northeast, but less common on the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n \u201cLiving in Florida, we almost work harder to achieve more of a complex sound because a lot of people down here play something totally different than what we\u2019re into,\u201d Remy said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that only makes me want to just be more eccentric and dramatic with the music that we\u2019re creating,\u201d Grant added, \u201cto leave even deeper of a stamp.\u201d<\/p>\n A graduation from the DIY recordings done in garages and closets, Wimmer<\/a> finds bill. loading the tape with contorted, gnarled-up guitars, aggressive drums masterfully-recorded by Nathan Doyle, snippets of Ableton sessions, and the sounds of not just pro synths but toy electronics with origins in the \u201890s.<\/p>\n Remy\u2014a lifelong percussionist who\u2019s earned high marks since his days at Mitchell High School\u2014acquired the synths through Facebook Marketplace or eBay, but one of them has been in his life since he was three years old.<\/p>\n \u201cMy oma bought it for me\u00a0 because I needed a distraction,\u201d Remy, 30, said. \u201cThat synth survived this whole time up until now, and that synth is actually the secret sauce of this album.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite its ambitious nature, there\u2019s not a song on Wimmer longer than five minutes, so listeners aren\u2019t getting pummeled by music. And for an album with so many LAN cables attached to it, Wimmer feels infinitely more human than the increasingly AI-assisted music hitting streaming services every day.<\/p>\n Remy, who has a music performance degree from the University of South Florida, said that heartbeat is key to the bill. aesthetic.<\/p>\n \u201cMy degree is rooted in performing live as a human, not through a computer,\u201d Remy, who graduated from USF, added. \u201cBut computer music has always interested me. We\u2019re at a weird precipice right now where computer music is trying to sound acoustic and human, but I think computer music is way more interesting when it sticks to more of those like bits and bloops and bops.\u201d<\/p>\n The record, he said, feels like a bunch of people made it because the band made a deliberate choice not to sit at a digital audio workstation mapping out notes for every instrument.<\/p>\n \u201cFor every synth part we played, there was a physical synth in our laps and we were plucking away at it, doing a billion takes until it sounded somewhat right,\u201d Remy added.<\/p>\n Wimmer is out now care of Philly and Atlanta imprints Julia\u2019s War and Rope Bridge; the former is a revered underground label that\u2019s embraced obscure sounds under the tutelage of its leader Douglas Dulgarian, frontman of TAGABOW.<\/p>\n \u201cI love it when Tampa bands get their time,\u201d Theo Severson\u2014co-founder of the Emo Night Tampa<\/a> collective that celebrated its 10th anniversary last summer<\/a>\u2014told CL.<\/p>\n Chris Wood\u2014aka beatsmith, drummer and DJ Mes McDonald\u2014co-founded Emo Night Tampa<\/a> with Severson. Going back to their days DJing at Ybor City\u2019s long-shuttered Pulp party at Czar, Wood and Severson have literally been on the forefront of local music for three decades.<\/p>\n On Thursday for Emo Night Tampa\u2019s takeover of Rock the Park<\/a>, bill. makes up the heart of a lineup that includes more pop-punk-oriented bands Bad, Bad Things and Pet Lizard<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bill. is a regular on Emo Night Tampa shows on account of that sound, which Wood describes as raw, but technically proficient at the same time. He\u2019s been playing a lot of music in the same lane as Wimmer on the Emo Night Tampa radio show that airs overnight Fridays on WMNF 88.5-FM<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople are into it,\u201d Wood added about the feedback from the listening audience. \u201cAnd they\u2019re definitely into bill.\u2019s live performances, so I think they\u2019ve always been a natural fit.\u201d<\/p>\n Grant, for his part, wonders what the Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park crowd is going to think about a band that\u2019s played its best shows at American Legion halls and DIY spaces. Those audiences, after all, have told him that they often feel fatigued after a bill. show.<\/p>\n Bandmates Alix Herard, Jorge Sotomayor, and Leonardo Joseph will add another layer to the show, and Grant, who\u2019s not much for in-between song banter is clear about how he\u2019s always wanted the crowd to feel the set in their chests.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the song is over, I want you to\u00a0 exhale like you\u2019ve been holding your breath, experiencing every moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s go.<\/p>\n WIMMER by bill.<\/a><\/p>\n Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n Follow us:\u00a0Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n This article appears in Jan. 29 \u2013 Feb. 04<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n \t![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bill-Nico-Remy-Photo-by-Gingerinjury-Photography.jpg\")
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