Maillist
Nadja
- Belles Betes
- Format: CD Album
- Catalogue Number: MT170B
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
- Release Date: 10 May 2010
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PRICE: £12.99
Belles Betes
Warning: not recommended for listening in buildings without earthquake retrofitting: Nadja’s doom-fuzz may crack foundations and/or reduce nearby objects to jelly.
However, Nadja, here performing a quartet of solo Aidan Baker covers, maintains a certain melodic balance within the throat-clearing guitar lurches which levitates the heavy, like the most graceful pterodactyl-flying-off-with-a-dead-baby-Icthyasaur you have ever seen. Especially when his voice cuts in, the low-end maraud transforms into a sweet continuo that seems like stoner-metal chewing on 4AD’s ear. A grinding thump into the clouds which proves there ARE beautiful uglies.
