Purchased at Virgin Megastore in London in spring 1984
Ref: CBS 84725 - Published by CBS in the Netherlands in 1980
Support: 33 tours 30 cm
14 tracks
Outside Holland, career discography of Nits started in 1979 with their debut album at CBS, Tent. We really did not know at the time that the group had released in 1977 at her first single, Yes or No , and even an album, printed in 1000 copies in 1978.
Tent, which I found cheap at Gibert Jeune at one of my first trips to Paris, is the first of a trilogy of albums of new wave Nits to store next to those of ' Ultravox! of Wire or XTC. I bought Work, the third, which was released in 1981, but initially I had New flat, I've always considered more or less my favorite of the lot, that tape duplication.
If, paradoxically, I found myself in London to buy at full price (£ 6.49) this disc Dutch well aired in France, for a variety of reasons, including the fact that I lived in London at the time, I had a little money, I found that the disk (of course) but I think my motivation was primarily to make sure that I had all my favorite records of Nits few months after purchasing the same place the mini-album Kilo, too slow and too jazzy, a huge and abrupt disappointment after the great success that had been pop album Omsk .
is the reference in my column Nits disc Yes Yes that made me want to highlight their first records, I'm not so often. I was very pleasantly surprised by listening carefully New flat. This disc is less synthetic than I remembered and much more energetic and even electric. Some keyboards, for sure, but not that much. Just a few snippets of drum machine, a lot of electric guitar, but ultimately the two most value are the battery, which is also supported, and bass, huge.
There is not a weakness of the fourteen tracks on the album. It speaks of places (apartments, office ), objects, people too, and even a guy who turns into an object (A statue ). Everything is covered in a tone as detached as the graphics of the cover is clean. The new apartment
New flat which opens the album during its early B-side, cooking different Different kitchen. Both, like Uncle on Mars, I do not think badly Devo. It is even more blatant New flat in live recording in 1982 in Haarlem found, with 361 other new titles, in Files Nits.
I do not want to multiply the comparisons because the disc has its intrinsic value, excellent, but the reference points are the most obvious XTC's Barry Andrews era, Wire ( Saragossa particular) and more rarely Kraftwerk ( His first object ). Singing on the chorus of Safety in numbers makes me strongly think about a title of the first Talking Heads but I have not taken the time to find which one.
I'm not far from thinking that the group consider these first discs - wrongly - as simple short pieces of youth. In 1989, 33 laps on the triple / double live CD Urk , Then Work was barely represented and Tent and New flat completely absent. Same or substantially on most compilations released. These three books have been published on CD at a time, but as much of their music at CBS, they are long out of print and sold at prices prohibitive to occasion. Given that they are not available for download, the best is yet to buy the editions in 33 laps, yet affordable. These records are essential to any fan of new wave are well worth the effort.
Aloha drums! in concert during the tour Tent Udenhout to June 22, 1980, with real Hawaiian guitar in a rhythm reminiscent Battery clamps XTC.
- Blogonzeureux! Slices of Life Pol Dodu shaped washers recordings. My discs improbable is the first collection of these columns.
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