Nurse With Wound
Paranoia In Hi-Fi

This record left our Brian feeling happy.

Nurse With Wound would normally be Anthony's forte but since i'm bargain basement Brian, I've opted to review their 99p sampler CD 'Paranoia in Hi-Fi'. This man is a complete nutter but without him, the face of modern industrial and experimental music would be in a relatively sorry state. Dystopian audio collage is the order of the day here as he assembles a sort of modern day "Faust Tapes" to spread his particular brand of sonic lunacy to the masses. He's obviously gone excavating the more accessible side of his ouvre here with bits of comical dialogue interspercing the deranged jazz, bendy krautrock, mongy percussive cycles & heavily manipulated samples. I'm intrigued enough by this stunning display of gibbering mentalism to want to investigate Mr. Stapleton's work further but i'm afraid to ask our Ant incase he suddenly stuffs my hard drive to bursting point with 4000 hours of this sick & wrong plunderhonic legend. Yes that's 78 minutes of music for less than the price of a bag of chips!

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What their label says...

With a nod and a huge gesture of respect towards the pioneering efforts of Virgin Records in the 1970s with the release of "The Faust Tapes" LP for 50p, here is a Nurse With Wound full length CD in a decent jewel case, with proper artwork that sells for 99p. This will only be available in high street shops, there will be NO mail order, either from Dirter, Andrew Liles or anyone of the usual mail-order outlets. That's the idea - you have to go into a record shop to buy it. In today's world of downloads, free CDs with Daily Mail, and high street record retail dying on its arse, this is our way of doing our bit to get people to go into their local store. The shop owners won't be able to order the swimming pool on the strength of the profits from this, but it's hoped that it will make a few thousand NWW fans go into a shop that they might not have, and who knows, they might even buy a Coldplay CD while they're there. Info about the music as written by Andrew Liles is below, he says it's the greatest album ever made and he should know...   
 
Paranoia in Hi-Fi collects 30 years of Nurse With Wound recordings in one easy to swallow CD. This CD confirms what all Nurse With Wound followers have known for many years, and will open the ears for new listeners to the fact that Nurse With Wound have always been an outstandingly innovative and ceaselessly creative force. Never staying still NWW are unpredictable, disconcerting, humorous and always original. With a flagrant disregard and disinterest in musical styles, cliques or fashions the uniquely independent and autonomous NWW have made over 50 albums with no regard and no interest in their critical or commercial reception. Mixing the sublime with the ridiculous Steven Stapleton and NWW uncompromisingly carve their own distinct style that has a musical language and visual landscape entirely of its own. Drawing inspiration from far flung corners including DaDa, Perez Prado, Surrealism, Krautrock and whole cascade of other ideas NWW have created a diverse back catalogue of material from ambient classics (Soliloquy for Lilith) to the disturbed (Homotopy to Marie) and many other easy listening nightmares. NWW is an idyllic and fascinating tropical island way out there on a limb, the visitors who make it to their shores seldom ever want to leave. Paranoia in Hi-Fi covers almost all of NWW's wild and eclectic sinister whimsy and shows that in Steven Stapleton’s world everything is possible...possible, possible.  

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