NINA NASTASIA

I have "Dogs" on socialist records and really like it. Have always been looking for the album with Jim White, and saw Outlaster on vinyl recently for pretty cheap, like $9.99. I wasn't sure about it though. Always considered her a less alienating alternative to Mirah, and not in a bad way.

don't know mirah....outlaster on vinyl for $10 is a bargain

Oh! Give her a shot. Try the "Advisory Committee" album.

Got Outlaster on vinyl the other week. As scott mentions in an Outlaster thread, it sounds great and the packaging is fantastic. I used to be a total stan for the simpler arrangements in Dogs, but the strings in Outlaster won me over in the end. I have to add Dogs to the vinyls wanted list, though. I first heard Dogs while visiting a friend in the Audio Recording program at IU. A professor let him borrow it as an example of a great recording.

Dogs has been reissued at least once on vinyl, I bought it from her when she played in mpls w/Jim White

Reissued in Europe maybe? All of the copies on discogs ship from Germany/the Netherlands

yeah no idea, but there's no way it was the orig. press...unless she had a box leftoever that she brought on tour

the jim white record is kinda hard to find i think, now...i grabbed the last copy she had from the merch table and bummed everyone behind me out

btw, evan - mirah (the name) was bugging me and i realized a friend of mine put out a bunch of her records (or at least the vinyl versions)

Jim white collab on lp recently went for 80+ on eebs.

damn, i don't think i'd part w/it though

when amazon says it's "temporarily out of stock", does it really mean "probably out of stock forever"?

yeah probably gone...

honestly, sometimes if you have a decent bigger indie record store in your town you could call over and see if they have one collecting dust for list price, i've found stuff like that before

That's neat your friend put out some Mirah records! She's really great, though her last album was OK.

Passing on Outlaster for $9.99 is going to bug me like crazy, though it would only have saved me what $6 or so?

It's going to cost me at least $5 in metro to make a trip if it is still there so I don't know if it'll remain such a bargain.

jim white album is straight fire, big ol bango drums

yeah that record is the shit. i was gonna say outlaster was my fav (tbh there is something pretty about the first couple of records that turns me off a lil, all of which is buried by you follow me) but i feel like it's such an exemplary & singular example of a successful combination of two instruments, like sunship or something, that it earns extra points.

outlaster slays though. side two. the best instrumentation, some of her spookiest songs. like writing wakes, it's so confident, the first line is just such a stray intriguing opening image.

i like them all

dogs and blackened air maybe have a bit of a vibe where someone might have once described her as "alt country"? (though i think even then she's very distinctive, but she had more conventional elements to her songwriting that were shed as she went on)

Blackened air is some p dark shit. Love the strings on that one

At the risk of extreme challops, the moment where the instruments land on 'Run, All You' might be the single greatest entry in recorded music history.

i like them all

Me too! I realized that when I was writing a review of Outlaster -- she's made six good-to-great albums in a row. I have personal favorites, both albums and songs, but I think everything she's done is worth having.

the best

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No one close

i'm only one lp away from completing my NN discography but unfortch it's 'you follow me'.

yfm is the bomb

sad this isn't a bump announcing a new record, I am ready

there was that weird show she did w/kim deal, which was supposedly 'a new project' but i never heard anything about it other than that show.

sad this isn't a bump announcing a new record, I am ready

sorry schlump, i just needed to post something cos i'm eager for new material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUgWg7JE1K8

"sad this isn't a bump announcing a new record, I am ready"

argh! yeah got excited there for a second.

ready for a new rekkid too

she keeps pretty quiet on the social media front so there's not much in the way of recent updates. her last five tweets are over the past 18 months and are either a heads-up about shows or a quick mourning for christopher hitchens.

the peel sessions on that blog got a takedown request from the record company with the promise of a proper release in the works. that was, what, 2 years ago now?

apologies to schlump and scott - this is not an announcement of new material just a wish for some. i need some new nina in my life.

she just played 1 x show
she/some record label emissary operating under the nastasia umbrella is on twitter
end of bulletin

I wonder what happened to that band she was going to do with Kim Deal

yeah i wonder what the ... deal ... ;) ... was with that

Dang, I saw the revive and thought "That's where I'm spending my iTunes Christmas gift certificate!"

If/when there's a new album, I hope she does a tour that brings her within driving distance of me. She's probably top of my haven't seen/want to see list.

http://www.sonicscoop.com/2014/04/15/steve-albini-mix-with-the-masters-seminar-announced-august-21-27/

^^apparently the session that will be done here is a new Nina Nastasia recording, per Albini :) :) :)

http://www.sonyalooney.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/girlhappy.jpg

http://mikedeslandesaudio.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/sa-1.jpg

?!

It's from the "mixing with the masters" seminar/course that Albini ran at a studio in France last month, the subject of the session being Nastasia...same place were the Bad Seeds did "Push the Sky Away"

Is it a full new album?

rick rubin?

"Is it a full new album?

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No clue

And the Rubin-esque person is Kennan Gudjonsson

lol @ rubin-esque

You set 'em up, I'ma knock 'em down

anyone have a spare vinyl copy of 'you follow me' lying around?

I've been looking for one for ages (at a "reasonable" cost) myself.

come on, four years. enough is enough.

^^^

No artists today, or very few have a real vibe, a real mystique, or something I can't ever quite articulate or explain correctly... Nina is one...

Ah I was going to joke about "bloody Brexit" - turns out that *is* the reason: "Apologies to all our UK customers, but due to Brexit, we are currently unable to accept orders from the UK.". Enjoying those sunlit uplands!

^ Hey JiffMoose, you had any luck purchasing The Blackened Air reissue? Unfortunately, the place I purchased it has sold out. If you're still having trouble, I'd have no problem purchasing it from Touch & Go and then sending it on to you.

Loving the Jolie Laide record, by the way. If I were to compare it to anything else Nina has done, it'd be Run to Ruin. It's a bit more uptempo than that record, but it has that same sense of dread running throughout. You can never quite get over the feeling that something terrible could happen at any moment. It's quite impressive.

Don't want to give too many spoilers, but "My Darling" is probably the song I replay the most. It's a gorgeous McCartney-esque ballad. Fairly short but very, very pretty.

Thanks Homeostasis - I did manage to track it down at Piccadilly records in the end, but thanks for the kind offer! It arrived on Halloween, and I think playing Ocean far too loud on my haunted record deck might have scared off any trick-or-treaters.

Don't really know Conan Neutron, but this is interesting - 2hr long interview with Nina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H5NYN3iHAE

first listen i am really liking the JL album

Finally got around to watching the interview. Interesting from 1:24:30 where Nina alludes to after Outlaster "there was another record that was a Bear ... if you could see the movie of it you'd see the break down. By the time we tried to do a recording it just didn't work, everything was breaking down at that point, it was just such misery that it wasn't happening. There are some recordings ... I'd have to go through and see what's salvageable, if anything"

Also very affecting on Kennan, with "Handmade Card" being a gift to him that was recorded on one night, "a joyful kind of thing". "He wasn't just one thing".

This is really nice: Nina writing about the influence of her artist father, James: https://www.talkhouse.com/role-models-nina-nastasia-took-more-from-her-father-than-she-realized/
Pennies dropping all over the place for me with "Jim's Room". I was just looking at the illustration from Blackened Air and wondering about it the other day...

New song by the band Mint Mile, Nina does vocals for 1 song on the album "Roughrider", called 'I Hope It's Different'.
you can find it on you tube if you look up Mint Mile I hope It's Different

Mint Mile are ex-Silkworm

Came across Jolie Laide live@cjsw

Blue Is Blue
My Darling
Move Away Towns
Isolation View

july 27, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmvuhxUYo9M

Looks like Nina's been recording in person with Jeff and the band for the new Jolie Laide track/album that's mentioned there (IIRC the first album was done remotely): https://www.picuki.com/profile/ninanastasiaofficial
https://cdn1.picuki.com/hosted-by-instagram/q/0exhNuNYnjBcaS3SYdxKjf8F2vJ1WgxSZ60STLepjSVmIR1vLHOapZA0mpCj4yRwKg5lHDeVeSBk548iWV5SDVQVNEzeSbSKRTdS76ycVuqivDZg859nlbg9KXcaZ3Sn8MAvUGepNWwSDv5PHL||lo79UvOa0LGFq8zCXW||RDmG4CqZL0APIz9Z8j3aqT3Vjm5IolITNev2glIx1l85PZrjQDUufkM8lmpKw5RbgBzPgL6NDtmjHlQD14PVFwFA+QsoicqcFTgDTeJTMJ2naGRf8heRkv1hO+sxtsk7wRvtTyEa9M+N8Z96PUTjtQEjktqBwzwMSCtiXsXm+i+GZQwWTD0+S0QvcEp7bEIsmWZ9jf7SrDfrDhPYtCRW8tVfn3f3XJN7O5ApUPwNkfPasdgRiK||gWCZ7nwgUEoXWxI2w==.jpeg

(sorry for the double-post) but I also hadn't seen this: http://post-trash.com/news/2024/2/20/wrangling-brains-with-jolie-laide-feature-interview. This sort of exchange gives me a lot of joy:

Jeff: He [Clinton St John] was going to be on the first record more, but he was going through a lot of stuff, like divorce.
Nina: Yeah, divorce. Two brains cohabitating, it’s very difficult.
Sam: That’s a lot of brain.
Nina: A lot of brain to wrangle [all laugh]. But also, one brain is not enough! You just can’t go on with one brain, you need more brains.