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Nadja

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 28, 2009)
• Original Release Date: April 28, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: The End Records
• ASIN: B001Q4JLV8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #196,716 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff from Toronto, Canada creating what has been called "ambient doom" -- music that combines elements of metal, shoegaze, ambient, post-rock , experimental, and neo-classical. The debate over whether Nadja is a metal or an ambient band has been long-standing, so they decided to put the issue to rest once and for all by recording an album of covers from some of their favourite bands. Consider this album an exploration of the roots of Nadja: everyone compares us to My Bloody Valentine, so we had to cover them; Codeine and Swans were both bands exploring the heaviness of metal without actually being metal (sound familiar?); The Cure have that lovely, bittersweet gloominess; Elliott Smith's 'Needle in the Hay' is simultaneously so simple and so devestating; no one believed us when we said we covered a song from The Kids in the Hall movie, a staple of our live set, so we had to get that one to tape; how could we resist the opportunity to cover A-ha's heaviest (but oh so catchy) tune? And Slayer is just Slayer. In an effort to illustrate our motivations behind this album, we asked our friend Mathew Smith to create a series of children's-storybook-like drawings to go with each cover song.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Grinding, shredding, and pulverising, July 23, 2009

By	korova (Varosha) - See all my reviews

Step 1: take great songs from My Bloody Valentine, the Cure, A-Ha (yes, THAT A-Ha!), and others
Step 2: apply massive amounts of feedback, fuzz, and distortion
Step 3: work at a sludgy, plodding, excruciatingly slow pace

Nadja has done all of this brilliantly and will force you to approach these songs in a new way. Nadja's relentless attack pummels and bludgeons each song, exposing unexpected angles, yet they somehow manage to retain each band's core essence. Hard to do and amazing when somebody pulls it off.

Noise and drone lovers will dig this record, as will adventurous fans of the original artists. Four stars.