NADJA Release Covers Album, When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV
April 28, 2009, 15 years ago
Toronto-based ambient/shoegaze/drone duo NADJA release their new album, When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV, today. The album features eights cover of some of Nadja's favorite bands.
"Consider this album an exploration of the roots of Nadja," says founder Aidan Baker (guitars, vocals, drum programming). "Everyone compares us to MY BLOODY VALENTINE, so we had to cover them. CODEINE and SWANS were both bands exploring the heaviness of metal without actually being metal. THE CURE have that lovely, bittersweet gloominess. ELLIOTT SMITH's 'Needle In The Hay’ is simultaneously so simple and so devastating. No one believed us when we said we covered a song from The Kids In The Hall movie, a staple of our live set, so we had to get that one to tape. How could we resist the opportunity to cover A-HA's heaviest (but oh so catchy) tune? And SLAYER is just Slayer. In an effort to illustrate our motivations behind this album, we asked our friend Mathew Smith to create a series of children's-storybook-like drawings to go with each song."Two mp3’s have been leaked from the album so far. MTV's Headbangers BLOG premiered 'Dead Skin Mask' (SLAYER), while Pitchfork released 'Only Shallow' (My Bloody Valentine). Those MP3s are available at the following locations: click here to hear ‘Only Shallow’ (My Bloody Valentine cover), click here for ‘Dead Skin Mask’ (Slayer cover).
When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV' tracklisting: ‘Only Shallow (My Bloody Valentine)’, ‘Pea (Codeine)’, ‘No Cure For The Lonely (Swans)’, ‘Dead Skin Mask (Slayer)’, ‘The Sun Always Shines On TV (A-ha)’, ‘Needle In The Hay (Elliott Smith)’, ‘Long Dark Twenties (Kids In The Hall)’ and ‘Faith (The Cure)’.
