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Naughtland

by Nurses

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Makoto HARA
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Makoto HARA What nice songs they are!!!
I have their 4 albums, but each album is the best of them.
John Mentzer
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John Mentzer This has to be one of the freshest sounding contemporary duos I've ever heard. The music is top notch, the vocals are all over the place like Prince one minute almost Aaron Neville, and a cast of others and thats one song! Its like listening to the many voices inside a man possessed by benevolent ghosts... tender, weird, cool... I'm keeping a close eye on these guys. They weave musical elements together in such an effective and unique way. Feels like art again! Nice work Nurses! Favorite track: Fortress.
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1.
Looking in the mirror it's clear that we're glowing if i use my imagination we're standing in the wall skipping out through nature to make sure we're living if i use my imagination it's not hard at all nothing is a given we're living on our own nothing is forever forever is too long come and wake me up soon come and wake me up i had the funniest dream that we were all gonna die and all these things we're fighting for  no one's gonna take away we control the time time is running from all sides you're singing in your sleep now to keep down your longing they're looking at us wrong yeah, we were right all along nothing is a given we're living on our own nothing is forever forever is too long come and wake me up soon come and wake me up i had the funniest dream that we were old but we couldn't die i'm gonna pick you up soon  i'm gonna pick you up  i'm out here hunting for dinner i thought i'd get us something new to try
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Fortress 03:49
i feel the sunlight sitting on the table top I feel my life is the beginning of a mountains drop Beneath the stone I tell everyone I feed on light I believe in so much that is physical Animals and minerals, Statuette of criminals I can see that my vision’s getting clear again It’s looking like it used to Empirical miracle Beneath the stone I tell everyone I feed on light For everyone i miss no pain from everyone I feed on light From everyone Not just anyone If anyone here’s got something to fear It’s not from us There’s a word for the feeling of a season lost Lost because you wandered off To satisfy your wanderlust There’s a face I see it’s carved into a mountain top I feel I kinda recognize it recognize it cause it’s mine Beneath the stone I tell everyone I feed on light For everyone i miss no pain from everyone I feed on light From everyone Not just anyone If anyone here’s got something to fear It’s not from us
3.
Pillow Talk 04:38
I’m caught at the surface You’re caught below And no one does it better No one hesitates Cause it’s a day for love As long as we’re okay with it No one does it better No one hesitates A day is all it is The faulty time The miracle gaze A day is all it is The sound below The somber waves A Million thoughts A single way If you want to I may wake up and let you know…
4.
Afterlife 04:28
In the summer time I see you walking by I see you walking by In the summer time In the autumn time I saw you laughing there You were laughing there In the autumn time Now and forever Because Now and forever It was you You always had a thing to say I always heard you ringing I remember you saying something about  Life was good  Right at the beginning of us In the afterlife I saw you laughing once You were saying “What’s spilling out of us?”
5.
Why 04:19
Sit like an armchair meeting Don’t forget to bring it up Like a waterfall that’s falling too soon Sing for me won’t you greet me Bandolera señorita Alive like we’re waiting for a military coup And we’re doomed They’re waiting for me how bout you They want to hear me out how bout you They want to sing me off to slumber Sneak me by the light of the moon But why why Are you gonna sit there and cry cry Like the only way to get there’s to die Drunk like a punch bowl Open arms and open headed I’d like to tell you I’m polite to the moon Wished on a water fountain  Give me lives and give me mountains Alive like we’re waiting for a military coup  And we’re doomed
6.
Hangnail moon Everning star Long looks can travel far Light through trees Shapes that please On your face scars on your knees From the prayers you offered for peace Like a nightingale singing alone on the beach I will sing you a song that’s as slow as the sun You were tougher than nails I was sweeter than some And the alleys are feasting on romance tonight The reflections are doubling meaning the meaning The song of the nightingale Under the evening star Where we have been we know long looks can travel far I feel it deep in my bones I feel the weight lift away from my body I’m out here I’m all alone I’m all alone and I’m leaving behind the weight Of the world The weight of my life Down on the street letting it out My mind was on fire 24 hours more
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Naughtland 03:34
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Heavy Money 04:42
You’re tellin me all these words and they don’t mean a thing Doesn’t matter much to me When I feel my fortune is free You’re tellin me all these lies And they don’t mean a thing But it doesn’t matter much to me When I feel my fortune is free I’m tried of this place Let’s get out of here Everybody here is giving me the creeps Heavy money A lifetime sitting on the books Feel like Rorschach With everyone interpreting my looks It’s for show Making all that money to go Making all that money And it makes no difference to me When I feel my fortune is free And you tell me all these words And they don’t mean a thing It doesn’t matter much to me When I feel my fortune is free Now that you see, you know Now that you see, it’s gone And it’s not alright Not okay
9.
I left my old familiar haunts They were crowdin me they’re crowding me Tell me If new beginnings Bring new endings And now I’d wait for a million lives But I’m getting lonely So tell me If new beginnings  sound like endings A proud performance I hope You believe in the sound of my voice Cause now my songbird sings  Like a thing like a thing like a thing-ta-thing I let my conscience ring And it rings like a ting-ta-ting And the last and the last of the names you know Will be the first be the first of the things to go I left my consciousness exposed But it’s getting cloudy it’s getting cloudy so tell me If new beginnings bring new endings It’s a proud performance I hope you believe  In the sound of my voice Cause now my songbird sings  Like a thing like a thing like a thing-ta-thing I let my conscience ring And it rings like a ting-ta-ting
10.
Daylight glimmer From the ocean Somehow introducing me  To sound of water Hounds of summer Mixed with sounds that made me wonder…. Man sometimes I’ve gotta take a chance to stop And I was on my way for We got what we came for You got me bought and paid for Yours to keep A day like ours Filled with omens Til you got here I was only Overstated, undue motion, under water Swimming towards you Man sometimes I’ve gotta take a chance to stop I was on my way for We got what we came for You got me bought and paid for Yours to keep And all we gotta say for it We don’t have to wait for it You got me bought and paid for Yours to keep

about

On Naughtland, Nurses invite us along as they continue to plumb the stranger depths of the human condition. Themes of ephemerality and materiality, life and death, and love and terror pervade. From the in-body, exuberant-terror of Why, to the out-of-body examination of the struggle for self in the duality of contemporary identity on the title track Naughtland , we find ourselves lulled into the thirdspaces of duality, suddenly comfortable outside the confines of our Saussurean binaries.
Album opener In the Mirror, a Dr. Dre-like production in a Lynchian nightmare, sets the foundation for Chapman’s wild-eyed musings: “I had the funniest dream that we were all gonna die” and “Nothing is forever, forever is too long”—an anthem celebrating life or oblivion or both.
Fortress joyously extols the virtues of living under a rock, or perhaps makes the most of feeling alienated/entombed—we’re never sure. Can we be both? Whatever the case, Nurses want to make it clear that however dark the subject matter may be, they’re a sympathetic friend along for the ride: “If anyone here has something to fear it’s not from us.”
Silver Moonlight takes stock of our relationship to inescapable sociopolitical realities—albeit from an abstract
expressionist point of view via scatterbrained meditations on the anguish of police violence, race, and class struggle. The contradictions inherent in the isolation/groupthink of echo chambers, the telephone-like interplay of information and disinformation, the constant pendulum of engagement and exhaustion, and the stress of moving forward without a clear path while a unnamed doom looms (“1, 2, 3, 4…24 hours more”) all characterize contemporary political discourse and beg the question of where truth and beauty lie in such a state.
Heavy Money gives us Lexapro-Simon and Garfunkel over a minimalist hip hop beat, as Bowers thinks aloud about the weight of capitalism and the cost of a life led in the pursuit of money. Nurses, however, also make time to indulge in the sweeter aspects of life. Pillow Talk, a free-associative love letter, gives us an argument for taking a break from the world and spending the day in bed with a lover. We feel sunlight pouring through the window and the tug of life’s obligations as Chapman coos persuasively, “A day is all it is.”
Yours to Keep, inspired by Chapman’s recent marriage, considers the contradiction of loving while keenly aware of the terror of having something to lose. Caught between these two states is an ode to stopping to smell the roses while we can, allowing the tenderness of a moment to inspire us to act in spite of our fears.
An album of paradoxes and emotional fog, Naughtland wears its contradictions comfortably, and encourages us to do the same. Nurses’ foremost preoccupation seems to lie in sharing their truth, and encouraging us to find our own by attempting to see beyond the dissonance we might feel. But the journey, more than the destination, may be the point here. A conviction of contradictions and musical fluidity keep the listener off balance but begs us to lean in with the promise of surprise—if not to sympathize, then perhaps to spectate as
two longtime friends love and lose and share with us their pursuit of truth

credits

released October 6, 2017

Nurses is Aaron Chapman and John Bowers

Engineers: Jacob Portrait, Jason Ehrlich
Mixed by Jason Cupp
Mastered by Kevin Peterson at The Mastering Palace
Elroy Finn: drums on In The Mirror, Fortress, Pillow Talk, Names You Know
Jacob Portrait: synth on In The Mirror, Heavy Money, Why, bass guitar on In The Mirror
Neal Morgan: Tambourine on Silver Moonlight
Kathy Chapman: piano on Names You Know
Album Art:
Photo: Chantal Anderson
Design and Layout: Andrea Glaser
Style: Andrea Glaser and Nurses

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