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| Ambient/Shoegaze Duo NADJA Announces Covers Album; Pitchfork Premieres MP3 of "Only Shallow" (My Bloody Valentine Cover) |
 Toronto-based ambient/shoegaze/drone duo NADJA announced today the forthcoming release of a new album featuring eight tracks, all of them covers. The album, entitled 'When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV,' features covers of some of the band's favorite songs and artists and displays NADJA's diverse and eclectic background. The album will be released on April 28th via THE END RECORDS but in the meantime fans can get a sneak peek by downloading the album's opening track, a cover of My Bloody Valentine's "Only Shallow," which premiered exclusively via Pitchfork Tuesday afternoon: http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/12526-only-shallow-my-bloody-valentine-cover/  CD | TE134 | The End | 4/28/09 'When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV' Tracklisting: 01. Only Shallow (My Bloody Valentine) 02. Pea (Codeine) 03. No Cure For The Lonely (Swans) 04. Dead Skin Mask (Slayer) 05. The Sun Always Shines On TV (A-ha) 06. Needle In The Hay (Elliott Smith) 07. Long Dark Twenties (Kids In The Hall) 08. Faith (The Cure) The band has a few upcoming dates scheduled in Europe: 03/20/09 Fri @ The Buffalo - Cardiff 03/21/09 Sat @ The Brudenell Social Club - Leeds 03/22/09 Sun @ Bardens Boudoir - London 03/26/09 Thu @ Twisted Pepper - Dublin 03/27/09 Fri @ Croxhapox - Ghent 03/28/09 Sat @ Logement - Antwerp 04/16/09 Thu @ Cassiopeia - Berlin More info about NADJA and 'When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV': Nadja—a duo from Toronto, Ontario featuring Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff—create what is often described as ’ambient doom.’ Nadja’s music combines elements of metal, shoegaze, ambient, post-rock , experimental, and neo-classical. Their new album, ’When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV,’ features eights covers of some of Baker and Buckareff’s favorite bands. ”Consider this album an exploration of the roots of Nadja,” says Baker. ”Everyone compares us to My Bloody Valentine, so we had to cover them; Codeine and Swans were both bands exploring the heaviness of metal without actually being metal; The Cure have that lovely, bittersweet gloominess; Elliott Smith's 'Needle in the Hay' is simultaneously so simple and so devestating; no one believed us when we said we covered a song from The Kids in the Hall movie, a staple of our live set, so we had to get that one to tape; how could we resist the opportunity to cover A-ha's heaviest (but oh so catchy) tune? And Slayer is just Slayer. In an effort to illustrate our motivations behind this album, we asked our friend Mathew Smith to create a series of children's-storybook-like drawings to go with each song.” NADJA is: Aidan Baker (guitars, vocals, drums, etc.) Leah Buckareff (bass, vocals) NADJA on the web: http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv  |
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