NURSE WITH WOUND - Huffin' Rag Blues (Expanded Repress) - 2LP - Vinyl [FEB 6]

2LP - Black Vinyl Expanded Repress. 

Here’s an expanded edition of one of Nurse With Wound’s most intense, unique opuses, so unique that for long-time fans it was a strange, chaotic loundge bizzarie when it first came out. For the first time, all four audio sides are complete (originally, there were only three sides). And to crown it all, a magnificent new cover by the great and talented Babs Santini, who is none other than Steven Stapleton behind his pseudonym of plastic artist, still in the luxurious tradition of the “silver collection” at Rotorelief Records.

Nurse with Wound’s album Huffin’ Rag Blues is unique in NWW’s discography. Stapleton teams up with composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Liles, his co-creator of musical terrorism, to tackle the exotica and lounge genres, crushed into a cacophonous mess. Long-time NWW friends Colin Potter and Matt Waldron are also on board. Blues, jazz, crime films, bachelor pads and soap opera music are processed and discarded, then chopped up and recycled in a mix that contains a ton of space, but also overflows with dynamic tension, hilarious asides, sexually suggestive poetry and a certain rock & roll abandon. This is a very surprising opus for long-time fans, is like a soundtrack that could illustrate a David Lynch film It’s brilliant, maddening, hilarious and
sinister enough to earn a place in any collection with a little quirkiness and eccentricity.

Huffin’ Rag Blues incorporates more familiar musical elements – including instruments (played live, even), rhythm and vocals – than almost any other Nurse With Wound album to date. The album’s main concern is, as always, to create environments for lucid dreaming rather than to create music as such.

Tracklist: 

A1        Willy The Weeper
A2        Groove Grease (Hot Catz)
A3        The Function Of The Hairy Egg

B1        Black Teeth
B2        Thrill Of Romance
B3        Livin' With The Night
B4        Ketamineaphonia

C1        Juice Head Crazy Lady
C2        Wash The Dust From My Heart
C3        Cruisin' For A Bruisin'
C4        All Of Me

D1        Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (MaMa)
D2        The Bottom Feeder (Alternative Mix)
D3        Thrill Of Romance (Burgo Partridge Mix)