Nadja - Desire in Uneasiness CD

Desire in Uneasiness songs It's tempting to try to classify Pelican, but their music defies any easy definitions. While they certainly use volume and crushing heaviness as a weapon, they are equally adept at quiet moments of meditation. The different moods and textures the band explored on their full-length debut, AUSTRALASIA, are expanded on in even more dramatic fashion on the follow-up, THE FIRE IN OUR THROATS WILL BECKON THE THAW. The album's title appropriately describes the gradual build in tension as each song unfolds, with minimal instrumentation giving way to epic cascading riffs that build upon one another in imposing fashion. Elsewhere, as ...

Desire in Uneasiness CD music ALTAR acts as a Melvins family reunion of sorts as two of their most obvious sonic offspring--Sunn O))) and Boris--join together for a feast of slow-and-low heavy drone. Given both of their deconstructionist takes on the Melvins' stoner riffs and their abilities to find a strong meditative quality in feedback, the bands make a perfect match and their visions meld seamlessly. Guests include Soundgarden's Kim Thayil and the Sweet Hereafter's Jesse Sykes--the latter adding beautifully creepy female vocals. Initial pressing included bonus disc with bonus track. Personnel: Bill Herzong (vocals, upright bass, snare drum); Jesse Sukes, Phil Wandscher (vocals); Stephen O'Malley (guitar, piano); Greg Anderson (guitar, Moog synthesizer, bass guitar); Kim Thayil (guitar); Steve ...

Desire in Uneasiness album for sale With their second full-length album, Boris takes their sludgy, Melvins-influenced doom rock style and gives it a heavy psychedelic slant. The album is divided into five tracks, but like their other albums, Absolutego and Flood, it plays out like one extended piece and is meant to be listened to straight through in one sitting. It starts out with a slow, ugly doom riff that repeats for several minutes before heading into a stretched-out, psychedelic jam section on the lengthy second track, "Ganbou-Ki." After another succession of heavy riffing, psych-rock jamming, and a little bit of up-tempo punk action (the first part of "Kuruimizu," which still retains a Melvins-like feel), they move into ...

Desire in Uneasiness buy CD music As artists experimenting at the extreme edges of metal and ambient electronics, Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff are intriguing candidates to record a covers album. Songs by a diverse array of bands, from Swans to a-ha, receive Nadja's perverse Midas touch: every track is transformed into a gloriously doomy, molasses-thick dronescape, with sustained, effects-laden chords that threaten to reverberate on into the next day. You'd expect a metal cover here and Nadja oblige with Slayer's "Dead Skin Mask," featuring some surprisingly conventional riffage amid its dense layers. Swans, too, are an obvious choice given their relentless dirges. Interestingly, Nadja pick an originally acoustic number from the band's more accessible phase, albeit infusing ...

Desire in Uneasiness album for sale Skin Turns to Glass was only Aidan Baker's second album using the Nadja moniker, yet, despite the obviously nascent musical vision at hand (not to mention the fact it wasn't even originally released by a proper record company), it already reveals his astoundingly advanced grasp of recording techniques as a means for sculpting breathtakingly emotional material. Part evanescent audio atmospherics, part thunderous death/doom horror show, the album's three, epic-sized compositions sucked the inspirational marrow from influences like Swans, Earth, My Bloody Valentine, Godflesh, and Sigur Rós, then reprocessed them into entirely new, oftimes unforgettable nightmares. The title track, in particular, produced an avalanche of cinematic images via countless layers of sound, its shimmering, ethereal symphonics ...

Desire in Uneasiness CD music Building music out of a flurry of hazy guitars indebted to both the Stooges and European black metal, Melbourne's Grey Daturas are more interested in texture and feel than in traditional song craft. RETURN TO DISRUPTION is the definition of "avant garde," both meditative and mind-scrambling in equal measure. Vaguely menacing and discordant noises build a sense of nameless dread on "Undisturbed," and "Neuralgia" is an enveloping cloud of distortion as thick and disorienting as the album's cover. You won't hear RETURN TO DISRUPTION on the radio anytime soon, but you may hear it in a nightmare. Recording information: Head Gap (08/2006). Grey Daturas: Robert Mayson, Bonnie Mercer, Robert Macmanus. Audio Mixer: Neil Thomason.