Moon Tooth recently released their fairly new single "Nymphaeaceae" and is now streaming the equally catchy, but very different acoustic version of the same track. Guitarist Nick Lee explains the acoustic version is a testament to how good the writing was on the original single, and that the band had a lot of fun trying to re-imagine the song.
"When the idea of doing an acoustic version of 'Nymphaeaceae' first came up I wasn't sure it could work but I think it's now my favorite heavy-to-acoustic rendition of a Moon Tooth song we've done! I found the most inspiration for how to turn one of the more thrashy new songs into a vibey acoustic jam from Led Zeppelin's 'Friends' off of III. Jimmy Page on that song is able to make an acoustic guitar sound heavy and mean as hell and it's always been a favorite of ours.
"It is always a fun challenge because, especially in the last few years, Moon Tooth has put just as much effort into writing interesting chord progressions and melodies as we have put into writing crazy, acrobatic riffs so when you strip the song down to its roots and it's still solid, it feels like we must be doing something right. Ray also brought it to another level with his percussion; incorporating a castanet and even a glockenspiel to do something different than our past acoustic tracks. We couldn't help but laugh at times making it, like 'what band are we in again?' but I'm really very proud that we've set ourselves up to express whatever we want musically and it can still be accepted as Moon Tooth."
