Do you prefer it when music looks like it’s making enjoyable of you? Like, when the music doesn’t look like a joke that you simply’re in on however like a brutal mockery of you, your folks, and all you maintain expensive? If so, you then could be within the Atlanta band Nag
Nag appear to stay in that early-’80s second when punk was simply turning into hardcore — when bands have been taking part in quick, however there was nonetheless some post-punky goth-rock of their riffage and when their singers have been nonetheless doing self-consciously obnoxious nasal playground-bully voices. I like that second! Nag smear all their music in reverb, they usually sound dank and mysterious, like they need to be taking part in within the goth membership from the start of The Hunger. But in contrast to precise Hunger band Bauhaus, Nag additionally sound like they’d be deliberately antagonizing all of the vampires within the membership, screaming of their faces and knocking their drinks over and shit.
Right now, Nag are on a wild run. Last yr, they launched two full-length albums, Dead Deer and Observer. Today, they’ve adopted these LPs with a brand new one, and it’s acquired the inexplicable title Human Coward Coyote. It sounds tense and cathartic and perhaps barely gross. I’m into it! Maybe you’ll be, too. You can stream it beneath.
Human Coward Coyote is out now on Convulse Records.