- Category: Music » Rock & Pop » Alternative
- Format: CD Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
- Release Date: April 28, 2009
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: The End Records
- UPC: 654436013426
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113351464
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #112201 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
- #31798 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
- #2861 in Alternative (See Top 100 Alternative Bestsellers)
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Product Description
Run a Quick Search on "When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV" by Nadja to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV"Browse more products related to "Nadja"ReviewPitchfork (Website) - "[T]hey not only have impeccable taste, they also have an instinctive understanding of the type of songs that tend to increase in mystery and intimacy when swaddled in an impenetrable fog of guitars." Title NoteAs 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 the track with the pounding menace characteristic of early Swans. Nadja's obligatory novelty selections include Kids in the Hall's "Long Dark Twenties" and a-ha's "The Sun Always Shines on TV," the latter improbably preserving some of the original's catchiness. Certain source materials, however, leave no room for Nadja to work their magic. Take My Bloody Valentine's "Only Shallow," which is already drone-filled and cacophonous. Baker and Buckareff give it more heft, slow the tempo, and ratchet up the distortion but in doing so, they flatten the song, stifling its energy and fragile melodicism: while the original was compelling for its balance of beauty and brutality, Nadja lose that dynamic. Covers albums are only worth doing if a band makes the songs its own and the Canadian duo have such a distinctive aesthetic that you'd think it would be easy for them to claim others' material. But since they're mostly tackling short tracks with vocals and traditional verse/chorus structures, there's little space to construct the epic, amorphous symphonies that are their forte. Bereft of that scope, these covers aren't as strong as Nadja's own compositions. Nevertheless, this is an interesting diversion giving insight into the band's coordinates. ~ Wilson Neate If You Enjoy "When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV (CD)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV (CD)" by Nadja (Artist)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Explore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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