Nancy: English Leather-based
Blame Recordings
Vinyl | CD | DL out there right here
Launched twenty eighth October 2022
Nancy returns after the wonderful mini LP final yr (reviewed right here) which was a warped, melted fistful of glam insanity that had folks speaking. English Leather-based is the complete debut and it’s a whopper stuffed with tunes says Wayne AF Carey…
Nancy exploded onto the scene final yr with a wonderful mini LP which might have been claimed to be his debut album. Ten tracks of wobbly insanity born out of the ashes of Brighton’s Tigercub that had the music world questioning the place the fuck this warped sound was coming from! Enter 2022 and there’s no letting up for the unusual tall fucker who’s a hybrid of Bowie, Marc Bolan, Josh Homme and Mark Lanegan in dayglo tights. It’s one other ball of delights and he wears his influences on his sleeve with no disgrace.
Title observe and opener English Leather-based has the dirtiest warped glam intro you’ll hear this yr. As Nancy describes: ““Eyes down for a full home, the present is about to start. ‘English Leather-based’ is the manifesto, it’s the fingerprint, it’s the primary act. I wished it to sound primal and scary. The Fool meets The Candy printed on vinyl omitted within the solar to warp”. Taking straight from Bobby Darin and mixing it up with a stoned lyric and a few bizarre wobbling that places the GLAM in Glam. Attractive as fuck. Can’t Get Rid Of You is straight out of the Spector e book with the intro but appears to meld right into a JAMC tune. Stuffed with melody and intelligent little licks which even warps right into a little bit of Stone Roses at one level. Good. Judy is correct retro enjoyable which takes you proper again to that 70’s insanity. A lifting pop track that makes you smile with each hear. The vocal vary is superb and his information of echo psych sound is a pleasure.
Ruby is a trippy wonk bastard that sounds correct stoned. Laidback, extraordinary with the vibes of Syd Barrett operating proper by means of the entire insanity. Moonlight is a jolly piece of labor that has haunted fairground vibes taking on the wheel of this psychedelic bus of sound. It’s bizarre pop wonk from one other dimension that may unsettle but hurtle you into his unusual realm of concepts. Bolan involves thoughts on Driftwood with it’s T-Rex stylings that take you again to that glam Seventies vibe he’s not afraid of plundering to his benefit. A cool as fuck pop nugget that lifts the tempo once more with some nice adjustments operating all through.
I Caught Emotions is stuffed with drug references clearly from his personal experiences of being bullied from the wankers who can’t settle for folks being totally different from the norm. A private tune that actually chokes me on each hear. Maudlin but uplifting multi functional bag. A cracking tune that makes you assume. I Hate Rock And Roll might be the rockiest observe on right here. A giant ball of fuzzed up glam rock that bursts out of your audio system like Suffragette Metropolis. A quick paced little bit of lo-fi fuckery that works.
Black Choral Bells plunders from the glam scene but once more, solely the trick with Nancy is it really works to his benefit. He sprinkles the entire tune together with his personal magic and turns it right into a belter, which solely us oldies will suss out. He’s the grasp of turning an previous traditional into his personal by including some warped wizardry to the combination. Closing observe Candy Like Sugarcane is a good instance of a songwriter who’s clearly steeped within the historical past of the Seventies scene and is aware of how one can abuse it to his personal stylings. Components of Nick Drake that sound fuck all like Coldplay and drag in a little bit of Elliott Smith to heat the senses.
Nancy is right here to stick with stuff like this. Anybody who can flip Glam Rock into thoughts melting acid psych is a winner on my radar. A fantastic debut album that joins the ranks of our albums of the yr.
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Phrases by Wayne Carey, Opinions Editor for Louder Than Struggle. His writer profile is right here
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