Nadja announce new album ‘Luminous Rot’
NADJA have announced a new album!
Titled Luminous Rot, the upcoming album from the Canadian experimental duo is their brand new full-length effort and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Southern Lord. The LP version of the album will be released in August.
Thematically, the album explores ideas of ‘first contact’ and the difficulties of recognising alien intelligence. This was in part inspired by reading such writers as Stanislaw Lem and Cixin Lui – in particular, theories on astro-physics, multi-dimensionality, and spatial geometry in The Three Body Problem – as well as Margaret Wertheim‘s A Field Guide To Hyperbolic Space, about mathematician Daina Taimina‘s work with crochet to illustrate hyperbolic space and geometry.
The album was recorded between their home studio, Broken Spine Studios, or NADJA’s live rehearsal studio, both in the district of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Luminous Rot marks the first album mixed by someone else, who in this case was David Pajo. The band comments, “as big fans of SLINT, we thought he might fore-front the more angular, post-punk elements of our music – the mix is quite different from our previous albums. But, as usual, we had James Plotkin [KHANATE, OLD, etc] master the album as we trust his ears and aesthetic, as he’s mastered numerous records of ours.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming release; the title track Luminous Rot.
Watch the official music video for Luminous Rot here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Intro
2. Luminous Rot
3. Cuts On Your Hands
4. Starres
5. Fruiting Bodies
6. Dark Inclusions
Luminous Rot is set for release on May 21st via Southern Lord. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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