Drone Records

NADJA - Labyrinthine

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: BROKEN SPINE PRODUCTIONS BSP 014

Release Year: 2022

Note: extremely heavy, doomy new album with special concept => "Four extended tracks of atmospheric doom sludge, each with a different guest vocalist: Alan Dubin (Gnaw, Khanate), Rachel Davies (Esben & The Witch), Lane Shi Otayonii (Elizabeth Colour Wheel), & Dylan Walker (Full of Hell)....Labyrinthine explores themes of identity and loss, monstrosity and regret, extreme asceticism, the differences between labyrinths and mazes, etc.. " - no vinyl version, but numerous Cassette versions on other labels exist!

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00

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Four extended tracks of atmospheric doom sludge, each with a different guest vocalist: Alan Dubin (Gnaw, Khanate), Rachel Davies (Esben & The Witch), Lane Shi Otayonii (Elizabeth Colour Wheel), & Dylan Walker (Full of Hell).

Nadja's latest full-length offering Labyrinthine, recorded during the pandemic and concurrently with their Southern Lord album Luminous Rot, finally sees a CD release on the band's own label, Broken Spine. Labyrinthine explores themes of identity and loss, monstrosity and regret, extreme asceticism, the differences between labyrinths and mazes, taking inspiration from Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore, Ursula K. LeGuin's The Tombs Of Atuan, and Victor Pelevin's reinterpretation of the story of the minotaur and Ariadne, The Helmet Of Horror. While this might be Nadja's heaviest, doomiest album to date, it is unique in the band's extensive catalog as each track features a guest vocalist: Alan Dubin, legendary American vocalist from O.L.D., Khanate currently Gnaw; Rachel Davies, vocalist and bassist from the British band, Esben & The Witch; Lane Shi Otayanii, a Chinese multi-media artist and vocalist in Elizabeth Colour Wheel; and Dylan Walker, American vocalist from grindcore/noise band Full Of Hell. Nadja has released numerous albums on many different underground labels -- Alien8 Recordings, Daymare Records, Robotic Empire, Hydrahead Records, Gizeh Records, and Important Records, to name a few. The duo has toured extensively around the world, including performances at such festivals as SXSW, FIMAV, Roadburn, Donaufest, Le Guess Who, Incubate, and Unsound, and has shared the stage with such artists as Earth, OM, Khanate, Tim Hecker, Ben Frost, and Godflesh.

Mastered by James Plotkin, artwork by HLG.

Released on CD by Broken Spine & limited cassettes by: Katuktu Collective (US), Cruel Nature Records (UK), Bad Moon Rising (Taiwan), Adagio830 (Germany), Muzan Editions (Japan), UR Audio Visual (Canada), Pale Ghoul (Australia), & WV Sorcerer (France/China).

brokenspineprods.bandcamp.com
katuktucollective.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinthine (US)
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinthine (UK)
badmoonrising.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinthine (TW)
adagio830-records.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinthine (DE)
muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinthine (JP)
uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-046-labyrinthine (CA)
paleghoulrecordings.bandcamp.com (AUS)
wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinthine (FR)

Aidan Baker - guitars, drum machine
Leah Buckaeff - bass
Alan Dubin - vocals
Rachel Davies - vocals
Lane Shi Otayonii - vocals
Dylan Walker - vocals

https://nadja.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinthine