Nudge
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Website: http://myspace.com/nudgetheband
Bio: Nudge returns with a slow burning full-length of sounds perfect for the dying days of the summer’s swelter.
The varied stylistic shifts of previous material ... (more)
have garnered their fair share of comments regarding a schizophrenic nature, but here the experimental lean of the group is placed to deliver it’s most cohesive sound to date. Masterfully blurring the music’s entangled live and programmed approaches to the point of imperceptibility, layer upon layer of synth, guitar and vocals are draped over skeletal pop structures and anchored by dub basslines born of resin-stained fingers. Covered in an electric blanket of atmosphere that can surely only come from years in outer space memorizing the top of one’s shoes, the gothic trappings reveal themselves as hard-earned circles beneath the eyes as opposed to poorly applied hot topic nail polish.
As Good As Gone is a proper album whose arc is intended to be absorbed stem to stern.
context: Nudge is a slightly loose collective orbiting Los Angeles based musician Brian Foote, birthed premillenially in Portland with the intent to push forward with emergent technologies and antiquated kit alike. His prime collaborators are Paul Dickow who works solo as Strategy, and Honey Owens who records under the Valet moniker.
This album follows the ‘Infinity Padlock” ep on Audraglint and the 2005 kranky album ‘Cached’. With such a gap between full-lengths, it would be easy to think Foote has been slacking, but nothing could be further from the truth as he’s been busy collaborating with Valet and Strategy, racking up mix/production credits with Atlas Sound, Lotus Plaza and Signaldrift, and touring as an ensemble player of Valet and Atlas Sound Music Group.
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