Nadja stream their new full-length album, »Luminous Rot«, out now via Southern Lord Recordings

Berlin, Germany based doomgaze duo Nadja has just released their new full-length album, »Luminous Rot«, on May 21st, 2021 via Southern Lord Recordings.

Originally from Canada, Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff make ambient/experimental/doom metal together since 2005.

Tracklisting:
01. Intro
02. Luminous Rot
03. Cuts On Your Hands
04. Starres
05. Fruiting Bodies
06. Dark Inclusions

Recorded at Broken Spine Studios in Berlin, Germany.
Mixed by David Pajo.
Mastered by James Plotkin.
Artwork by Anoop Bhat.

From Southern Lord Recordings:

Nadja is a duo of multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker and bassist Leah Buckareff – active since 2005 – and making music which can be described as ambient doom, dreamsludge, or metalgaze. Nadja’s signature sound combines the atmospheric textures of shoegaze and ambient/electronic music with the heaviness, density, and volume of metal, noise, and industrial.

For the new album, »Luminous Rot«, the duo retain their overblown/ambient sound, and explore shorter and more tightly structured songs reflecting their interests not only in metal, but post-punk, cold-wave, shoegaze, and industrial.

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 comment, “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.”

Nadja is:
Aidan Baker – Guitars, Vocals, Drum Machine
Leah Buckareff – Bass, Vocals

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well