Nurse With Wound: Homotopy to Marie (United Dairies)
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What does it mean? I don't know.
I know this much: this was the first NWW that Steven Stapleton was satisfied with, the fifth NWW LP. Why did it take that many?
John Fothergill is definitely out of the picture now. NWW is strictly Steven Stapleton's aural and visual imagery at this point. He does the cover art, he produces the sounds.
Like the front cover image, this is largely an austere statement. Most of side one is taken up by the sound of a cymbal, with female spoken voices occasionally and unpredictably entering. If a NWW album should be anything, it's unpredictable. He's definitely not afraid to be abrasive, as side two demonstrates. NWW was never an Industrial band, but these records are no less noisy.
Steven's audio landscapes seem to be clearly cinematic in nature. Aural landscapes. Is he dabbling in sampling on this record? My guess is that he's pulling some voices from extraneous sources, but I can't cite anything specific.
In the end, it breaks into what sounds like a small Balkan brass and reed band. Who'd have thought?
Oh but wait....leave the needle in the groove...there's demonic laughing and more noise at the end. The CD version lists a fifth track, compared to the four on the LP. This must be the "Astral Dustbin Dirge". We'll come back to that.
This album does feel more accomplished, more self-assured than the previous. Knowing what I do about the NWW discography, Steven's work will hit even higher highs than this in the next few years.
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