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Nada UV’s new album, Gnosis on the Low End, starts in the wrong decade, or rather, the wrong nervous system. First Line Last Line opens with the type of chord progression that makes you check whether the walls are breathing. Nada UV have always had an unmistakable sixth sense for tension cloaked in atmosphere, and those first three minutes play it completely straight. You brace for the rest of the album to follow you into that hallway.
Then Die All the Time drops, and the hallway opens into a room with a speaker stack and a disco ball someone forgot to turn off. The funk is deep, the snare is lazy in exactly the right way, and the whole architecture of the record comes together wonderfully.
What Nada UV have built here is a G-funk-adjacent structure, and it’s so enjoyable. But the record has more on its mind than atmosphere. The lyrics are brilliant too. Tongue on the Wire, for example, excels in terms of storytelling. It maps the strange logic of submission as worship, where obeying means peace-bringing.
Beyond Good and Evil serves as the album’s most daring swing, alternating between different dynamics. This Is Who You Are marks another highlight and sounds quite tender, even though its title may seem confrontational.
The Day I Tried to Think Myself to Death is a title the algorithm definitely won’t understand, which feels like the point. Nearly seven minutes, the album’s emotional hinge, and it delivers. By the time Here’s to the Amicable and I Love How You Love Me close things out you understand that the Lynchian opener wasn’t a misdirection. It was a place for releasing emotions. The record needed you off-balance before it could take you somewhere else.
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