NINA NASTASIA

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

― omar little, Monday, October 22, 2012 6:47 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark

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?

― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 20:54 (6 minutes ago) Permalink"

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...

otm

there are so many artists who really strain for a mysterious presence or mystique and she just has it without even reaching out for it, it's just part and parcel of her lyrics and singing and guitar playing.

no news on a new album, but it's funny how she and Kennan keep making cameos in Will Oldham videos (even though they've never sang together afaik):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjugCIQV3Ec

*sung

Weird I listened to Dogs last night for the first time in forever

Seeing this kinda makes me wish Nina would get into acting (as well as making music obviously)

god please don't ever have nina duet with bonnie dumbbell...

she does in that video above. unless that's someone else.

it's someone else. she's lip synching, just like she's lip-synching here. weird how they shot two different videos for two different versions of that song.

I like Will Oldham, but a Bonnie/Nina duet album would not be a high point in either of their discographies, and he's done enough throwaway collaborations as it is.

on spotify if you go to her artist page there's a single there from 2008, two songs that appear to be from the Jim White/You Follow Me sessions called "What She Doesn't Know" and "Your Red Nose"

really good stuff, two new Nina songs you might not have heard, at least I hadn't....

there are also non-album tracks on singles on cry cry baby and you can take your time off outlaster

apparently she doesn't know how to write a non-excellent song these are all great

the (4 or 5) peel sessions are full of things that aren't on the records. the one mp3 blog that was sharing them got asked to take them down, i've heard, ahead of an official release. but this was years ago and nothing ever appeared.

(repeating myself, sorry)

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