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The Fakes
Band created by Nik Worth from the 2011 novel Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta. His power-pop side project.
Around this time, Nik formed his band the Fakes. Nik had the sensibility down. And Nik had the look down. He was born to look pasty and skinny and angular. The look wasn't the problem. The sound, well, that was always the issue. Nik's other band, the Demonics, had a small following, they had some weird sonic experimentations. They veered into long, meandering songs. They were dark in an our-of-step kind of way. No one knew what to do with them.
Anyway, Nik invented the Fakes as the antidote to the darkness and oddness of the Demonics -the Fakes were a side band designed to play power pop and have fun. They came right at the moment when the nihilism of the punk scene had run its course and people were hungry for some simple rock pop, some harmonies, with a danceable beat as long as the band looked New and Cool. People could dance to the Fakes, and they became much more popular than the unclassifiable Demonics. Nik did it as a kind of lark. He did it as a kind or calculation.
