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KRANK 134CD
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"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 have garnered their fair share of comments regarding a schizophrenic nature, but here the experimental leans 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 of opposed to poorly applied ho topic nail polish. As Good As Gone is a proper album whose arc is intended to be absorbed stem to stern."
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KRANK 134LP
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AG 116CD
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"This is a 4-song EP addressing the fragility of memory, the hopelessness of the drug war, the death of close friends and other similarly breezy topics. Utilizing over-baked metaphor and accusatory self-analytical lyrics thinly-veiled in the second person, Nudge comes to grips with its own mortality. Spanning 10 years of the act, the dualism always implied by the band's output is the spine of this recording. It contains two ancient tunes, two recent tunes, two sung by Honey, two sung by Brian. These conflicted pop songs are a gorgeous bummer."
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KRANK 083CD
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"Beginning with the balanced melodies of guitar and vocal that lead off Cached on 'Classic Mode', Nudge demonstrates a remarkable range and mixture of real time playing and electronic processing. Rhythms hint at dub reggae or African patterns while the accretion of electronic textures goes on above and below the melodies and beats. This interlocking of electronic and organic instrumental sounds is what sets Nudge aside from those who simply glue twee melodies onto drum machines and synth pads. Nudge enjoys their flirtations with genre, which makes Cached a genuine look at a band in 'play' mode (as opposed to po-faced 'work')." Members of: Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Fontanelle, and Strategy.
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