Nurse With Wound - Huffin Rag Blues

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 10 Jun, 2010.

Well after a chorus of farmyard bleatings, weird retro soundtrack carnage & drunken doo-wop Tom Waits-esque weirdness I can only assume i'm being subjected to another fine platter of Nurse With Wound served hot with spicy locust sauce. This is the coloured double vinyl counterpart to the previously released CD, many if not all the tracks presented in alternative remixery clothing. This guy is a complete oddball but no matter how sinister he becomes I cannot get the image of a peaceful beardy-weirdy tending his goats on a farm in Ireland. His love of Musique Conccrete, kooky film noir soundtracks, krautrock, sound collage, deviant lounge musick & cool jazz licks is once again put to formidable use. Some of the smoky female vocals dotted throughout are bloody sexy too - a relief from some of the more unsettling, creepy, twisted yet utterly compelling bits! Stephen Stapleton continues to impress us over 30 years into his freak outsider odyssesy. Lovely grubby blue waxxxx too

3 sides of different mixes to the CD, 1 side with a great Stapleton etching in dirty dark opaque blue vinyl . Another spectacular torrent of Dadaist experimental exotica from Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles, with a suitably scattershot list of contributors and collaborators, including repeat offender Colin Potter (credited with "testicular randomisation") and a host of 'proper' musicians and vocalists prepared to undergo the NWW treatment. As with the companion release to this album, The Bacteria Magnet, Nurse With Wound are currently set on a creative trajectory that dismantles the auditory iconography of the fifties, marauding through eerie re-renderings of jazz club instrumentals, electroacoustic traffic sounds and skewed torch songs. As NWW albums go, this is probably among the more outwardly approachable releases, but in fact it's the very proximity to the language of pop music that makes Huffin' Rag Blues all the more subversive.

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